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I have done precious little blogging in recent months. Oh I put up links to new podcasts where I read past columns of mine from the last twenty years with a few fresh insights as prologues but I’ve been spending my time working on the mechanics that could see me defeat Pete Stauber on August 9th. I have just ordered lawnsigns for my campaign and I have a letter that has been paired with excellent graphics and I’ve been getting tremendous support for other people on a number of fronts. I have had no doubt since I moved to Northern Minnesota that I could get elected to Congress as a Republican only that it would be a challenge. In my last column for the Reader a gratuitiously self serving document, that could only be publishes if the Reader wasn’t really an old-style last half of the 20th Century American Newspaper, which it isn’t<\/em>, I said I might not win this race on August 9th but I sure as heck would get more votes than the 8% my buddy said I was likely to collect.<\/p>\n As I scrambled to put my campaign into automatic pilot the last few weeks I was too busy to blog. Today it occurred to me that it was time to resume. Lincolndemocrat has always been the place I could describe what I was up to and what was on my mind without worrying too much about typos and hasty thoughts. Like Trump’s tweets I think that was part of its charm for the mysterious following I’ve had since I began blogging at the dawn of blogging in 2006.<\/p>\n If I lose this my 20th campaign I know what I’ll do. I’ll finish some books that have been on my mind. I will polish off my study of French and become a real bilingual speaker and I will do some traveling now that a second generation of my family is about to make me an empty nester a second time…..only a grandparent empty nester.<\/p>\n If I win??????? That is a still more interesting question. I will still write some books. But I’ll be in Congress as the most hated thing in a political party – A fifth columnist. Only I won’t be there in secret. Everyone will know that I think the Republican Party has become an enemy of our democracy as the pro-slavery slave owners of the South became just before they got Abraham Lincoln elected with all their skullduggery to make slave owning a national polity instead of just their regional corruption of the Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n Its their heirs hiding behind abortion that have taken over the Republicans while America is threatened with becoming a leader in the destruction of the Earth. What honest person would want to be a part of that? Not me. I’ll be a happy warrior fifth columnist for the revival of the south’s and now the Republican Party’s<\/em> hated Abraham Lincoln.<\/p>\n So I’ll be taking Republicans’ back on a trip the the past just like in Back to the Future III. <\/p>\n
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