Polinaut reports on Pat Anderson.
I admit knowing little about Anderson, she had a different last name when auditor, "Awada" I believe, but I think she has been me-too coat-tailing on Mike Jungbauer's global warming skepticism claims. I prefer the original. Jungbauer has ideas I disagree with, but of the three, I would prefer him.
And, I know, there are others. A multitude. So many, you'd really have to be special with fishes and loaves to feed them all.
The Polinaut link has a range of comments some might want to read that I find interesting.
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This pdf item was linked to by Polinaut, and I find it interesting it takes three pages to say, "I endorse Pat Anderson." When the endorsor gets too wordy sometimes it might be best to let the endorsee speak for herself:
When we asked her to join our slate, she didn't even hesitate, but agreed to appear on the liberty slate despite the disapproval of the party leaders. She was the top vote-getter in the National Delegate balloting. I am not one to tout “electability” as a prerequisite for a candidate, but when we have candidates that are strong, principled supporters of individual liberty and limited government, electability becomes a differentiating issue.
Pat has the best chance of any candidate to enhance the liberty movement within the Minnesota GOP. She is not an angry outsider that scares party leadership into bolstering defenses against liberty ideas, nor is she a verbal bomb-throwing libertarian who frightens traditional Republicans who hold traditional values. And the positive relationships Pat built with the media when she was state auditor – every major newspaper in the state save one, including the Star Tribune endorsed her reelection – means that “Governor” Pat Anderson would be a very public spokeswoman for individual liberty and limited government.
“Individual Liberty and Limited Government” is the top issue on Pat’s campaign website (www.anderson4governor.com). In far more detail than any other candidate (which translates into far more understanding and commitment) Pat’s ideas would be right at home on liberty group sites. Her site reads in part:
“The Pat Anderson administration will be based on individual liberty and a state government that is limited in scope, acts smartly and is transparent in its exercise of power. Specifically, Pat will demand that the State Legislature operate from a presumption of individual liberty. … Limited government, a government limited in scope, not in authority, will be the motivation of state policy. Where government has a constitutional obligation, government will be “fully funded” and act in a strong and decisive manner. Where government has no constitutional authority to act, it will not act at all. … The burden of proof falls on the Legislature to cite its constitutional authority for legislation and demonstrate how the proposed legislation is necessary to fulfilling that obligation – before any debate on the merit of the proposal itself takes place.”
With that Pat Anderson quote, how much of the remainder of that excerpt is necessary?
Anyway, the campaign website link is in there, look as much as you like.
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Who is this person?
Three single spaced pages, and I did a word search. Nowhere does it say "contribute."
What kind of an endorsement is that?
Here is the nitty-gritty.
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Anderson is not the only one seeking to try swinging on Ron Paul's -- coat-tails.
This link. That one, she has not been kissing war mongers lately.
Passing fancies pass, I guess. It's probably the political currency of the coat tail that trumps. Perhaps she's no longer a WELS Lutheran either.
At least Anderson has less baggage to jettison in choosing to join the Paul parade.
Out of curiosity, does anyone know if Ron Paul has any appearances scheduled for Mac Hammond's suburban theater-funhouse? He seems prosperous enough to be invited. Somehow I expect even with an advance invitation Paul might have "other commitments."
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Troll says, "Mike Jungbauer is a Pastor... Why would a god hating atheist like you prefer Mike? It just shows you have no coherent political philosophy just uncontrolled emotion."
Actually, he can spend his Sundays as he likes. Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer has an ethics that is not apart from being a religious person. Jungbauer, like Nelson-Pallmeyer, has seen first-hand third world situations and needs, and understands the dynamics. I don't know if it was missionary work, or what, in Central America, I only heard him make a passing mention. He has never that I have seen been an immigrant basher. It is so easy, and so many, many in the GOP do it. He doesn't. All that is fine with me.
Anderson presents herself as a Ron Paul devotee. Ron Paul says, "They Want My Money." Anderson has criticism from within the GOP camp. She appears to me to be as sincere in things as Michele Bachmann. There is a history, where rank and file and leadership hung together [Anderson too, presumably].
Emmer is a brain-damaged rabid bleating billy goat.
It's an easy call - of the three, Jungbauer.
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Pat Anderson, where were you yesterday? Dusty Trice knows; this link, plus, his "Show-me-the-Banner" pic.
Look at those last two right-side banner names - I read "Seifert," and I read "Anderson." Closing rank to exclude Ron Paul. "Support the Committee Reports that will be presented and don’t open the door for Paul manipulation," is letter text that the Trice post highlighted.
Dogs hunt in packs, and cut sharp corners at picking up the right scent at the right time. Anderson and Bachmann now pose as after Ron Paul limelight.
At least there's none of that in Jungbauer's running.
Otherwise -- Ho, hum, same old trustworthy as ever GOP.
Politics makes strange bedfellows, doesn't it Marianne and Pat? This Marianne. Two years on the outside looking in, now an insider herself and endorsement-cozy with one of the scornful insiders who'd been looking out; looking out to not "open the door for Paul manipulation."
Oh well ...
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update to the last update - the Stebbins-Anderson alliance might be more than a convenient shift - this Strib item suggests it goes back to May 2008, and that I might have jumped too quickly to a conclusion.
Does any reader have any insight to add via a comment or email? I am open to correction if I am in error. I invite it, if Anderson did strongly break ranks earlier over exclusion of Ron Paul people in 2008 - something I missed in first reading the linked Trice post, but there, with the link to the Strib item. Take this as a qualified correction. I would like reader feedback, one way or the other, to be more certain???