Reading greater Minnesota newspapers is its own reward. Take, for instance, an editorial in last week's Fargo Forum (which also serves the Moorhead area), Minnesota Bigfoot a fun story, but that’s about all.
The editorial notes:
Bigfoot? A famous astronomer said this about UFOs: An extraordinary claim requires extraordinary evidence. Thus far, all believers in Bigfoot have is a claim.
Forum editors had less patience with another claim being circulated in the district. In Political comedy in the 7th District, the paper observes:
The comedy opened this week when a mouthpiece for the National Republican Congressional Committee tried to make hay of speculation that Peterson would not run for an 11th term. Apparently the only people who believed Peterson would sit this one out were political types who know little about the 7th District. GOP spokesman Tom Erickson blamed Peterson for the speculation, saying the congressman’s “fundraising is stagnant … and just last week he refused to commit to another campaign.”
Well, that’s evidence enough, right? . . .
. . .The Republican committee’s grasping at straws in the 7th is nothing new. For as long as voters can remember, Peterson has vanquished every Republican challenger by margins that define landslide.
Most of those candidates have been unsuccessful because they have had nothing to offer the district, other than boilerplate political rhetoric more suited to a party rally than a campaign in the sprawling, diverse 7th District.
Perhaps Bigfoot will be found and the Republican Party of Minnesota will locate a viable candidate.
It is the Christmas season, after all. If the RPM and its blogging minions are very, very, very good for the next few days, perhaps Santa won't leave a lump of coal in the 7th CD's stocking next to those stale rhetorical cookies and sour milk on the MNGOP's table.
Image: A loyal reader of Bluestem Prairie sent us this sketch of the Republican CD07 candidate recruitment committee on the prowl. Report not verified.
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