Thoughts from a year ago...

"This state is a mess, and now it will be messier. The smart people who can fix this mess, are being driven out of state by the clowns. Soon, Minnesota will go from deep blue to hollowed out."

Wow. What a year. A year ago, who would have thunk it. It was getting close to state convention time, and MN GOP had the chance to go into this convention and nominate a group of candidates which were absolute top notch. And during the convention, they did. Because I worked on Jeff Johnson's campaign two elections in a row, I got to know Jeff both personally and politically. I got to know his running mate Donna Bergstrom. This was the Governor/Lt. Governor ticket like never before. A real game changer for Minnesota.

Well, the rest is history - and a sad history at that. The candidates who should have been nominated at the convention, were nominated. All was good. Everyone left Duluth feeling energized, hopeful and united. We were going to have a REAL conservative Governor in Jeff Johnson, a REAL (and honorable) Attorney General in Doug Wardlow, and a REAL live auditor in Pam Myrha. Still had to go through a needless primary, but for the most part, the ticket was set. 

Minnesotans, for the first time in forever, will have a government which will change the trajectory of this state. No more wasteful taxing and spending. Wise spending, with an eye on results, not effort. There was no way the voters of this state would elect a DFL carpetbagger from Nebraska. All he was promising was to double down on what Dayton was doing. And Attorney General? An alleged domestic abuser?  An alleged Louis Farrakhan devotee? No - from simply a talent and ethics standpoint, we had this election in the bag. 

We were wrong. Seems that the people of Minnesota did want more of the same. For some reason, they did not give a whit about welfare fraud. Nor the MNSure debacle. Nor the MNLars mess. The minions who live here who pay little or no taxes, were just fine at throwing good money after bad. So they voted out a bunch of VERY GOOD representatives from the suburbs, which tossed the house over to the foul mouthed Melissa Hortman. The GOP barely held on to the Senate, and to make matters worse, lost ALL our fine state wide candidates to the DFL clown car.

Now it is one year later. The DFL juggernaut has just run over the Minnesota taxpayers once again. How is that fix to Social Security coming for our seniors? Oh, that got tossed under the bus, once again. State government continues to grow, we continue to fund a failing education system, and we have idiots running the Met Council. Instead electing a "fixer" like Jeff Johnson, we got stuck with an enabler like Taxing Timmy. 

It really pains me to say this - it really does. But someone has to say it. Minnesota really does have some STUPID voters. To pick the candidates they did last November, belies any meaningful intelligence. It is like many of our inner city voters have spent so many years in the DFL mind meld, they have become brain numb.

Why do I say this? This state is a mess, and now it will be messier. The smart people who can fix this mess, are being driven out of state by the clowns. Soon, Minnesota will go from deep blue to being hollowed out. A Midwestern California or New York. And we will have NOBODY to blame but ourselves.