[Speed Gibson,
Thursday March 30, 2006 at 11:48pm]
I will not be ignored!
Whoever's handling her press is good. Already in the race per the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Almanac, Ember Reichgott Junge announces her candidacy once again for Congress to replace retiring Martin Sabo. Not only that, she makes the front page of the Metro section or whatever it's called these days. She gets a color picture insert, and gets their premier political reporter Dane Smith to write it. Dane Smith even obligingly included this little piece of crap, probably from her campaign:
All sides, as long as they're Democrats. Remember, anyone left-leaning enough to be called a moderate by the Star Tribune is a Democrat. Anyone to the right of that is an ultra-conservative.
Since the Republicans have no chance whatever, I should just sit back and watch the show. But Ember seems a bit too shrill to follow the calm and collected Martin Sabo, not to mention a bit of a fibbing problem. But her amazing press agent will deal with that, too, I'm sure.
"..., Reichgott Junge has been considered a moderate or centrist DFLer."By whom? Not regular viewers of At Issue with Tom Hauser who see her follow the DFL talking points to the letter every week. Then there is this curious quote:
"I can reach out to all sides [liberals and moderates]," Reichgott Junge said, "and that's not a bad thing."
All sides, as long as they're Democrats. Remember, anyone left-leaning enough to be called a moderate by the Star Tribune is a Democrat. Anyone to the right of that is an ultra-conservative.
Since the Republicans have no chance whatever, I should just sit back and watch the show. But Ember seems a bit too shrill to follow the calm and collected Martin Sabo, not to mention a bit of a fibbing problem. But her amazing press agent will deal with that, too, I'm sure.