{"id":38703,"date":"2026-11-07T21:53:35","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T02:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=38703"},"modified":"2026-11-08T07:11:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T12:11:58","slug":"stuff-i-want-to-do-before-another-run-for-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=38703","title":{"rendered":"Stuff I want to do before another run for Congress."},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Post: HAL<\/a>
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The last thirty days seemed very full but I’ve posted naught since October 8th.<\/p>\n

What brought me to my office and computer was an idea that would be outlandish if it wasn’t me that had it. My thinking that planning to file as a Democrat two years from now for Congress is what would be expected of me. Except for this year I did so four straight elections. In fact this year I started the year thinking I should do it. I even went to the first forum of seven or eight ambitious candidates and announced I was ready to change parties. I sat next to the eventual Democratic candidate Trina Swanson who even then struck me as the most serious candidate. If she had had a visible campaign she probably would have been one more winner. Maybe she will try it again. If so she could use a candidate like me to force voters to pay attention to her. BTW my idea at this return to the blog is a little different. I’d run for the DFL nomination as a Republican advertising that my kind of republicans ought to be voting for candidates like me that were called RINOs by the people who betrayed Ronald Reagan’s “11th commandment.” It is: Thou shall speak no ill of a fellow Republican. <\/p>\n

BTW I’ve spoken ill of the people who abaondoned Reagan and created a party waiting for a Donald Trump to contaminate Christianity and the Founding Father’s dream and Lincoln’s legacy. <\/p>\n

I have a year and a half to think about this and remember how old I am and that’s good. I have a half dozen projects I don’t want to set aside to campaign for two straight years. Among them. 1 Write some books, 2 Keep studing French, 3 Take care of the church I’ve attended but refused to join for the last forty years. Push little libraries.<\/p>\n

NOTE: I am going to start using AI to correct my posts. I just asked Chat GPT to correct the above but only for mistakes. After it did I asked it to underline the mistakes. This is the result:<\/p>\n

The last thirty days seemed very full, but I’ve posted naught since October 8th.<\/p>\n

What brought me to my office and computer was an idea that would be outlandish if it weren’t I who had it. My thinking is that planning to file as a Democrat two years from now for Congress is what would be expected of me. Except that this year, I did so in four straight elections. In fact, this year I started out thinking I should do it. I even went to the first forum of seven or eight ambitious candidates and announced I was ready to change parties. I sat next to the eventual Democratic candidate, Trina Swanson, who even then struck me as the most serious candidate. If she had had a visible campaign, she probably would have been one more winner. Maybe she will try it again. If so, she could use a candidate like me to force voters to pay attention to her.<\/p>\n

BTW, my idea at this return to the blog is a little different. I’d run for the DFL nomination as a Republican, advertising that my kind of Republicans ought to be voting for candidates like me, who were called RINOs by the people who betrayed Ronald Reagan’s “11th Commandment.” It is: Thou shalt speak no ill of a fellow Republican.<\/p>\n

BTW, I’ve spoken ill of the people who abandoned Reagan and created a party waiting for a Donald Trump to contaminate Christianity, the Founding Fathers’ dream, and Lincoln’s legacy.<\/p>\n

I have a year and a half to think about this and remember how old I am, and that’s good. I have a half dozen projects I don’t want to set aside to campaign for two straight years. Among them:<\/p>\n

Write some books.<\/p>\n

Keep studying French.<\/p>\n

Take care of the church I’ve attended but refused to join for the last forty years.<\/p>\n

Push little libraries.
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I will also be using AI to transtlate my posts into French. Rather than use my hasty mistake prone typing I’ll use the AI corrected version. BTW. I copied the underlines (sous titres in French) but the underlines didn’t copy. My errors were mostly spelling. There was a missing apostrophe but I didn’t wanted corrections of fact which I would ask for if I was to publish this in print.<\/p>\n

Here is the corrected version in French:<\/p>\n

Les trente derniers jours m’ont sembl\u00e9 tr\u00e8s charg\u00e9s, mais je n’ai rien publi\u00e9 depuis le 8 octobre.<\/p>\n

Ce qui m’a amen\u00e9 dans mon bureau, devant mon ordinateur, c’est une id\u00e9e qui serait extravagante si elle ne venait pas de moi. Je pense que me pr\u00e9parer \u00e0 pr\u00e9senter ma candidature au Congr\u00e8s en tant que d\u00e9mocrate dans deux ans serait ce qu’on attendrait de moi. Sauf que, cette ann\u00e9e, je l’ai fait lors de quatre \u00e9lections cons\u00e9cutives. En fait, au d\u00e9but de cette ann\u00e9e, je pensais d\u00e9j\u00e0 que je devrais le faire. Je suis m\u00eame all\u00e9 au premier forum r\u00e9unissant sept ou huit candidats ambitieux et j’ai annonc\u00e9 que j’\u00e9tais pr\u00eat \u00e0 changer de parti. J’\u00e9tais assis \u00e0 c\u00f4t\u00e9 de la candidate d\u00e9mocrate qui a finalement \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9sign\u00e9e, Trina Swanson, qui m’avait d\u00e9j\u00e0 paru \u00eatre la candidate la plus s\u00e9rieuse. Si elle avait men\u00e9 une campagne plus visible, elle aurait probablement \u00e9t\u00e9 une gagnante de plus. Peut-\u00eatre qu’elle essaiera de nouveau. Si c’est le cas, elle pourrait utiliser un candidat comme moi pour obliger les \u00e9lecteurs \u00e0 lui pr\u00eater attention.<\/p>\n

\u00c0 propos, mon id\u00e9e pour ce retour sur le blog est un peu diff\u00e9rente. Je me pr\u00e9senterais \u00e0 l’investiture du DFL en tant que r\u00e9publicain, en affirmant que les r\u00e9publicains de mon genre devraient voter pour des candidats comme moi, que les gens ayant trahi Ronald Reagan ont qualifi\u00e9s de RINO (r\u00e9publicains de nom seulement). Ils ont trahi le \u00ab onzi\u00e8me commandement \u00bb de Reagan : \u00ab Tu ne diras aucun mal d’un autre r\u00e9publicain. \u00bb<\/p>\n

\u00c0 propos, j’ai dit du mal de ceux qui ont abandonn\u00e9 Reagan et cr\u00e9\u00e9 un parti qui attendait l’arriv\u00e9e d’un Donald Trump pour contaminer le christianisme, le r\u00eave des P\u00e8res fondateurs et l’h\u00e9ritage de Lincoln.<\/p>\n

J’ai un an et demi pour r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir \u00e0 tout cela et me rappeler mon \u00e2ge, et c’est une bonne chose. J’ai une demi-douzaine de projets que je ne veux pas mettre de c\u00f4t\u00e9 pour faire campagne pendant deux ann\u00e9es cons\u00e9cutives. Parmi eux :<\/p>\n

\u00c9crire quelques livres.
\nContinuer \u00e0 \u00e9tudier le fran\u00e7ais.
\nPrendre soin de l’\u00e9glise que je fr\u00e9quente depuis quarante ans, mais \u00e0 laquelle j’ai toujours refus\u00e9 d’adh\u00e9rer.
\nEncourager les petites biblioth\u00e8ques de quartier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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