When your foes make fools of themselves..

It's best to step back and let it happen:

ROCHESTER – Democratic Party Chairman Brian Melendez wants to talk to Becky Lourey. So does Mike Hatch, the party’s endorsed candidate for governor.

But they are not going to like what she has to day.

Melendez and Hatch want Lourey to drop out of the governor’s race, allowing Hatch to concentrate on beating Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty on November 7.

“We, the party, are behind Mike Hatch,” Melendez said Sunday as the state Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party convention wound down in Rochester’s Mayo Civic Center.

Calling Lourey a “fairly weak” candidate, the party chairman said it would be best for her to step aside in favor of Hatch. After convention delegates endorsed Hatch Saturday night, he strongly hinted he also would ask Lourey to drop out.

On Sunday, Lourey said she is waiting for the two leaders to call her. And she has her answer ready.

“I do respect the 1,200 people at this convention…but we have a message for 5 million people in Minnesota,” Lourey said.

The state senator from Kerrick, in east-central Minnesota, said she absolutely will not bend in her decision to challenge Hatch in the September 12 primary election. And if Hatch asks her to be his running mate, she also will reject that.

Wearing blue jeans and standing in a corridor just outside the convention, Lourey repeatedly said she wanted to discuss issues with voters and just as often refused to say how she differs from Hatch.

“I am not controlled by anyone” was the closest she came to criticizing Hatch, but she would not explain what she meant by the comment.

She was not clear about how voters will be able to decide whether to vote for Hatch or her. “They will differentiate by the vision,” she said.

Lourey was forced out of competition for the party’s endorsement after four rounds of balloting Saturday, following a gradual erosion of support. Hatch, who lives in Burnsville, won the endorsement over state Senator Steve Kelley of Hopkins after seven ballots.

Earlier in the weekend, Democrats endorsed Amy Klobuchar for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by another Democrat, Mark Dayton. However, Ford Bell says he will oppose her in the primary.

Melendez said he did not think both Lourey and Bell will follow-through with their plans to run in the September 12 primary. But both said during the weekend that nothing would change their minds.

When Republicans are endorsed by their duly elected state delegates, with few exceptions, their challengers have the sense to step aside for the good of the party.

But for the DFL, the members of which one would think would be the most collectivist in their mindset, no such psyche exists.

This, dear readers, is quite instructive of the liberal socialist mindset. Far from being for the "common good", liberals have always been about the egocentric "where's mine?" mentality; and have exploited that mentality amongst their own ranks to meet their ends (class warfare, affirmative action, anybody?). The problem is, they exploit that mentality to their own detriment, both in policy decisions and in their dealings with each other. It is to the liberal, not the conservative, where the concept of self, self-indugence, and self-entitlement is of paramount importance.

Far from a collectivist and "greater good" perspective, this political hedonism results in a short-sightedness and recalcitrance in acknowledging the "big picture;" which in the last 10-15 years has netted them failure after political failure. Their own tendency toward self-aggrandizement only provides an added albatross weighing down on their own ability or even willingness to acknowledge their shortcomings.

But again, be it far from me to stand in the way of total asses while in the process of making complete fools of themselves.



(Filed under elections, moonbat adventures, limousine liberals)

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