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"Two years of Pelosi gives a good idea of what four years of Hillary will be like."
-- Former Congressman Tom DeLay

Silver Lining

Rochester City Councilwoman Amy Blenker and School Board candidate Gary Mullen-Schultz went down in defeat. Blenker was pretty much a non-entity in the City Council. Mullen-Schultz is too liberal for the Rochester School Board.

Mullen-Schultz's defeat was particularly embarrassing to the left-of-center former P-B columnist. After the primaries, the failed school board candidate wrote the following on his website.

Even though the results were very, very close, I ended up taking first place. The only reason I was able to do this was because of your outstanding support. The fact that more than two thirds of the voters chose someone other than the incumbent shows that many members of the community want change.

Mullen-Schultz has yet to call Fred Daly, "the incumbent," to congratulate him on his reelection to the school board.

The Real Winners

"Since Washington's hostile and hawkish policies have always been against the Iranian nation, this defeat is actually an obvious victory for the Iranian nation."

- Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

"I swear by [Allah] we shall not rest from jihad until we...blow up the filthiest house known as the White House."

- Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, a.k.a Abu Ayyub al-Masri, leader of Iraq's al-Qaeda wing

A New Direction

According to Ann Coulter, the Democrats' new direction is REVERSE.

Measuring the Drapes

Democrats all over the country are salivating as they measure the drapes in anticipation of sweeping every possible office for which they are running. They forget that elections are won or lost on Election Day, not a news cycle or two beforehand.

Here are the people I support in local Minnesota races. They share my values and they have my vote.

Mark Kennedy: U.S. Senate
Gil Gutknecht: U.S. House of Representatives
Tim Pawlenty: Minnesota Governor
Scott Wright: Senate District 30
Carla Nelson: House District 30A
Bill Kuisle: House District 30B
Dave Senjem: Senate District 29
Randy Demmer: House District 29A
Rich Decker: House District 29B

The Rochester School Board election is one of the most important. The following candidates deserve your vote. Their focus is quality, affordable education with accountability:

Fred Daly
Daniel O'Neil

Halp Us Jon Carry!

Just in case you haven't seen it, here's the picture that's all over the internet. Now, that's real sense of humor. Kerry deserves it.

The troops now dislike Kerry more than ever.

First congressional district challenger Tim Walz disinvited the Massachusetts senator from coming to Minnesota to stump for him. He was also told not to go to either Iowa or Philadelphia where other rallies had been scheduled before Kerry's unfortunate comment.

Even Hillary Clinton said Kerry's comments were "inappropriate."

As for the argument that Kerry "botched" the joke, Vice President Dick Cheney replied that the senator "was for the joke before he was against it."

Here's Kerry's "apology:"

"I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpreted to wrongly imply anything negative about those in uniform, and I personally apologize to any service member, family member, or American who was offended."

Misinterpreted to wrongly imply? Who talks like that?
John Kerry. That's who.

The "Botched" Joke is on You, Senator

"You know education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. And if you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."
-- John Kerry

In a hasty and poorly thought out response to the firestorm of criticism surrounding his offensive comments toward American troops in harm's way in Iraq, John Kerry, DEMOCRAT, Massachusetts, defiantly stated: "I apologize to no one for my criticism of the president and of his broken policy."

Moreover, the junior senator from Massachusetts said that his demeaning comment about the educational competence of our troops was "a botched joke about the president and the president's people, not about the troops ... " in spite of the fact that the statement in question mentions neither the President nor his "people."

By the way, what is so hilarious about fighting terrorists and "insurgents" in Iraq? Perhaps Funnyman Kerry can clarify.