Rep. Neil Peterson, the former Assistant Whip of the House Republican Caucus, was asked by the Star Tribune if he would switch parties or run as an independent in light of he loss at the Republican endorsing convention this weekend.
I am not going to answer your question. I am not going to jump to some conclusion right now.
Peterson joins Rep. Ron Erhardt in considering a bolt from the GOP. Look at how Peterson characterizes the MN GOP:
The party has started to move more and more into an attack mode. There is no room for discussion, there is very little room to build consensus. It has gotten to the point that people demand, and want to control us…There is a battle for dominance, and if you don’t think just down the certain line of a conservative, there is something wrong with you.
More Peterson:
Its very strident, its very attack, its very destructive. Our caucus over here is a house divided. People are at each others throats. Not just over transportation.
Still more:
They’re just marching off the cliff. Its really too bad.
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“if you don’t think just down the certain line of a conservative, there is something wrong with you…”
The most intelligent statement I’ve heard from a RINO in a long time. Perhaps (soon to be former) Rep. Peterson has benefited from this tough love after all!
In fact, his chances of ever getting elected to office as a Republican would increase exponantally if he’d have the courage to admit that he’d buckled under Democrat pressure and made a stupid, stupid mistake.
See, we love the sinner but hate the sin.
BTW and in all seriousness. If any of the Override Six are even seriously considering changing their party affiliation, it would prove conclusively that they were never true Republican’s to begin with.
Keep up the good work, Republicans! Marginalize the centrist and moderate elements of the caucus, you know, the ones that win you elections, and drive them to the DFL or as independents. The indies will like us in the DFL some, but hate you guys a lot.
So I’ll be looking forward to an irrelevant TPaw, a Republican caucus that can do little but eat its own young, and a DFL-driven legislative agenda that can override whenever it feels like it.
Oh, and a DFL governor in two years, who’ll probably be sitting on a comfy DFL majority in both houses. Because who are you guys going to run? You’re busily pissing off your best talent for higher office. Seifert just crossed his name off the “potential” list for that…
Marshall the troops Tom, marshall those troops to the One True Way!!! Damn the torpedos!!! Onward to the Permanant Republican Majority!!!
Neil Peterson is correct, lemmings marching off the cliff…
Oh Peachy Keen! As a Democratic partisan looking to bring Minnesota back to its’ former glory, I can think of nothing i would prefer more than the idiocy I see happening in the GOP. Talk about doing our work for us… keep on self-destructing. Scourge those filthy moderates out of your ever dwindling tent.
Why would any sane person elect a Republican who is convinced that government can’t work to run a government? Look what these GOPers are doing to themselves let alone to people that might just have a better idea on how to make Minnesota work.
Plus with all the sex crimes that Republicans involve themselves with… they might be soon prosecuted as an ongoing criminal enterprise.
Oh, yeah, and when we get those ironclad majorities, that you’re so nicely handing to us because your leadership got (sniff) mad, I’m being facetious here, but just for grins we should raise a few taxes here and there. Just to hear you Taxpayers League Repubs scream. I will particularly enjoy the screaming. Then we should use the revenue for state-funded gay weddings, and provide tax credits to married heterosexual couples who are willing to get divorced and marry someone else of the same sex. Then I can listen to the single-issue values Republicans scream too. Oh, it’ll be a chorale of indignation…
Music. Sweet music.
Kidding here, but in all seriousness I can bear the growing schism within the Republican caucus with great fortitude…
“Oh, it’ll be a chorale of indignation…”
That’s funny.
Anyone remember the gnashing of teeth from the left the past eight years? Anyone remember the precious, tear stained websites that the moonbat majority of the left put up?
Pfft.
If you’re looking for a similar infantile response from the right, you’ll be waiting a very, long, time.
I was out in western Minnesota last weekend- there’s a rumor going round that one senate district may hold it’s endorsing convention late, as they’re expecting a defection from the “dark side”.
Swiftee-
When you ask us to point for infantile responses from the right, I mean really….
http://mnpublius.com/2008/02/house-republican-caucus-moderates-need-not-apply-8/
http://mnpublius.com/2008/03/ozment-slams-potential-successor/
Scroll down to the comments section, you’ll see’em.
***“If you’re looking for a similar infantile response from the right, you’ll be waiting a very, long, time.”***
What - you’re taking a vacation, to where they don’t have internet access?
With your help we can continue our movement from a politics of fear and exclusion to one of generosity and inclusion. — Congressman Keith Ellison
Come on over to the big tent, Neil, Ron, Jim, Kathy, Rod and Bud. There’s plenty of room in the Party of Inclusion. Join our Democratic Farmer-Labor Party in the Big Tent. Or be an Independent and Caucus with the DFL.
If your GOP party is going to keep punishing you for your ‘transgressions,’ you can keep on taking the punishment, or you can take a different path.
Power to the People.
The People can Prevail over the Party of Exclusion.
“Come on over to the big tent, Neil, Ron, Jim, Kathy, Rod and Bud. There’s plenty of room in the Party of Inclusion.” HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA!
“Come on over to the big tent, Neil, Ron, Jim, Kathy, Rod and Bud. There’s plenty of room in the Party of Inclusion.”
Ahhhhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah ahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahaaaaaaaa!
Kelley, sit down and shut the fuck up you traitorous bastard. There are some sins which damn you to be shunned by decent people and your little romance iwth George Bush is one of them. Once you pulled your snout out from George Bush’s ass did you really think any decent Minnesotan is going to kiss you.
I always thought that Kelley and Normy Coleman shared more than a official title. Not that there is anything wrong with that…