Quist to moderates: drop dead

Last week, Allen Quist entered the race for the Republican endorsement as a candidate in Minnesota's First Congressional District. Should he gained this honor, he'll challenge Tim Walz, a task that has humbled other men in the last three elections.

Quist's talk points aren't much different from the last turn in 2010,when he lost the endorsement to Hayfield's Randy Demmer.  Austerity, anti-Obamaism, the usual GOP toolkit. But there are a few special new wrinkles this year.

"Walz is part of the problem," he told the Albert Lea Tribune, and  rival Mike Parry should stay in the Minnesota Senate because the Republican Party must hold the body. That's odd logic, given the fact that a Republican held that seat before Parry, and logic that offers little to those who aren't Republicans for supporting Quist.

And Quist is a-okay with that, as he intends to run as a "hardline Republican." The New Ulm Journal reports in Quist makes campaign declaration in New Ulm:

He also said he doesn't believe reaching out to moderates and Democrat voters is as important as it was in previous elections.

"I think there has been a paradigm shift. The old Republican and moderate distinction isn't as relevant anymore. I've listened to residents [of the First District] and that's not how they view the world. They view it in terms of the candidate making a difference and whether the candidate can solve problems," said Quist. "They also want somebody that's willing to buck leadership to accomplish what needs to be accomplished."

Apparently, Gutknecht, Davis and Demmer just weren't hard enough.

Photo: Allen Quist, getting his GOP mojo on.

 

 

Comments

[Debra Hogenson]

Yep, that's just what our country needs, a hard-line partisan who believes listening to the other side of an issue is soft and wrongheaded.

[Kathleen Castrovinci]

The problems Minnesota and the Nation have with Michele Bachmann is because of Allen Quist. All Bachmann knows, she learned from Quist.

Go figure!

[Phoenix Woman]

Geez, what is this, Groundhog Day for the Clown Car?

We've seen this movie before, folks. And it's going to end the same way.

Since Quist is a retread candidate, I feel excused in offering up some retread (but nonetheless true) remarks about the man.

From http://firedoglake.com/2009/12/05/come-saturday-morning-the-clown-car-rides-again-in-mn-01/ --

The staunchly anti-choice Quist is famous locally for being the man whose first wife Diane was killed while pregnant with their tenth child in a car accident in December 1986; he showed his undying love for her by a) pulling the six-and-a-half-month-old fetus’ body out of her womb and putting it in her arms so they could be displayed that way in the casket, and b) marrying his second wife Julie about six months later.