That said, voters do generally want a candidate who wants the job and means to keep it. There are numerous examples of incumbents who lost at least partly because they were known to intend to abandon ship mid-term, to run for higher office. Two words: George Allen. That’s why Crit Luallen decided to wait for Jim Bunning’s Senate seat, in KY. She knew the voters would resent it, if she went after the other seat right after being elected to her current office.

No disrespect to Paulsen, but there are a couple additional candidates who the R’s could put up and would be stronger than Paulsen (at least with Paulsen’s presence in this race to-date, which is zero).

You let the reichwingers post all kinds of nasties, yet you deem my previous post as unprintable?!

Would you care to email me to let me know what was so offensive about my post? Probably not.

Lefties who bend over backwards to please the righties do us all a disservice.

No worries. I won’t “pollute” your site with my posts anymore after this one. Probably won’t be back here anyway. Good luck with your appeasement tactics. It’s working so well for Pelosi and Reid, isn’t it?

Failure after failure marks the Democrats, from rising gas prices, an Iraq war that is costing 15 Billion dollars every month, rising food prices, rising health care costs, and a record setting rise in forclosures. Thank God that only effects those poor, lazy people they represent who don’t deserve my tax dollars anyway.

When are these liberalosers going to get out of our way and let the Republican party make the proper decisions that will set our Country on the right path again? We have to continue to downsize the government, lower taxes for us wealthy people who pay most of it anyway, and continue to show people why we own the moral high ground.

The Republican party is not gay, are not terrorists, do not hate America, do not give comfort to our enemies and most importantly, are not a bunch of hippie communists. Who’s party represents all of them, Liberalunatics? If you don’t like it, I hear Canadas pretty nice this time of year.

Think of the children!!!

This does not surprise me. I always thought that once Ramstad said he was out, he would stay out. It should be an interesting race.

I’m always a little surprised when people bring up the 3rd draining money away from Walz; where are all the indicators that he’s somehow in trouble? He’s been raising money quite effectively, maintained respectable approval ratings, and his opponents have done nothing to distinguish themselves as formidable threats to date.

Democrats never winning? Hello. Where were you in Nov of 2006? And with the shrub running our economy, the military, the environment and the middle class into the ground, voters in 2008 will happily repeat 2006.

Year after year you hear Bachmann is toast? Funny, she’s only ran once and this is her first term. The people’s impression of her wacko-religious, bush-stalking-and-groping behavior have made their mark on her reputation. She is by no means a shoo in.

Kline? His continued support of the disaster that is Iraq will be his undoing. With close to 80% of America wanting us out of there now, this fatal decision of his will be his downfall.

Although Pelosi and Reid have turned out to be afraid of the shrub, that doesn’t mean there aren’t other Democrats ready to step in and replace them as well. Along with the purge of the NeoCon-tainted Republican party members from DC, we will also be sweeping out the Republican-lite DINOs.

Count on it.

As usual, Backman and kine will do just fine as well we will watch Bonoff screw up taking this seat.

I never really understood why the democRats every year tell the same tale of how they will win all, yet very rarely do they do as well as they tell us all they would. I guess it is their ploy to get non committed voters to their side of the table? Maybe you tell people you will win enough, they will just vote for you because you have them believing they would be voting for the winner? I am not sure about why you do it, I just know year after year I am told how Bachman and Kline are tost, tey here they still are doing quite well.

My guess is the noisy leftist think since they make so much noise that surely they must be the majority.

This state has gone more and more moderate and I would bet not long from now the DFL domination will be a thing of the past. The liberals had a good run, but now we have seen how their policies fail in the shinning examples of liberal run cities in Mpls and St. Paul.