The Winona Daily News isn't the first Greater Minnesota newspaper to comment of the Republican Party of Minnesota's recent two-year ban of 18 apostates from pachyderm participation, but it does make the most modest recommendation.
It is the first to suggest that failed taco lord Tony Sutton and his fellow ideologues didn't go far enough in defending extremism at the expense of the vice of moderation.
The former governors and legislators had all endorsed IP gubernatorial candidate and former Republican activist Tom Horner.
In Our view: For state GOP, ideology trumps debate, WDN editor Darrell Ehrlick writes on behalf of the Winona Daily News editorial board:
. . .The two-year banishment is also a bit insincere. It’s important the period is two years. Just time enough for the party to look like it’s being tough on its rogue statesmen, but not too tough that they can’t endorse presumably GOP candidates again in the next election cycle.
If the Minnesota GOP really wants to be the party of principles and convictions, then it should be willing to really make a stand.
Kick ’em out.
Kick ’em out for good. . . .
Read the entire editorial--including those parts where Ehrlick removes his tongue from his cheek--in today's Daily News.
Photo: Tom Horner, the devil in disguise, via Politics in Minnesota.
Heh. Kinda hard to imagine even Tony the Toddler Sutton being childish enough to jettison the most popular -- and most electable -- people the Minnesota Republicans have ever had. But of course he and the Coopers have to fling a bone to the warmed-over John Birch contingent repackaged as "Tea Partiers", so throw a bone he will.
Posted by: Phoenix Woman | Dec 14, 2010 at 03:04 PM