IP, Lesser of 3 evils?

I haven’t been very politically active lately beyond keeping myself updated, but that will soon change. I am planning on attending IP US Rep candidate Tammy Lee’s “Bowling for Fun(ds) and Friends” at Alleygators in Maple Grove on Wednesday. Even better, I’m bringing friends. Then on Saturday is the Minnesota Independence Party State Convention. I’ll be bringing friends to that one, too.

With no other decent third party candidate, I’ll be supporting IP candidate Peter Hutchinson for Governor, but I’m not too excited about it. I feel the same blasé for IP candidate Ron Lischeid for State House Representative.

I suppose in this election cycle, I’m a strong Independence Party supporter by default. I’m supporting Constitution Party candidate Ben Powers for Senate, though, just to remind myself and others that I am an opponent of cultural Marxism. And I actually feel pretty good about the Republican candidate for State Senate, Sandy Burt. Her first priority is public safety, and she is against backroom stadium deals. Interesting. She could really break away from the pack if she were a Paleocon. Maybe I should call her up…

Otherwise, I have a plan and I’m sticking to it. I’m trying to carefully weigh every new option and opportunity against the fact that the status quo is working out just fine; everything is going according to plan.

I understand that I had hinted that I would have more time for posting now that school is out, but real life has been very intrusive. I’ve done more landscaping in the last two months than I have done in the previous nine years. I’ve been studying for college equivalency exams, and I’ve been having a fair amount of fun, too.

There is a project I feel is quite important. If I start working with candidates, I’ll have opportunities to present Paleocon ideas—to help people see the big picture. I should prepare and rehearse presentations of Paleocon ideas—and if I can recapture the vigor with which I delivered my monologues onstage those long years ago, so much the better!

Comments

[Dan]

You should take a closer look at Sue Jeffers for Governor.
http://www.suejeffers.org

[Bjorn]

You're right, I think I'll do so!

[Sean Scallon]

The IP still acts like the Whigs did about slavery. If we don't talk about an issue it doesn't exist. Yet what does Peter Hutchinson do when he gets a parental concent bill before on the governor's desk? Is he going to sign it? Veto it? What's he going to do? If can't answer that question, why should anyone vote for it? He doesn't have the power to say what issue will be discussed and which one's won't.

Unless the IP can give a clear and compelling reason why it should exist apart from the DFL which they clearly draw from, either from an ideological standpoint or froma regional standpoint ("We're the Party of the suburbs.") then they will gain a few votes this November, cost the DFL several statewide elections, and then fade into obilvion because people will see them as spoilers and not serious non-major force.