Jim Shella posts “Questions for a Monday.” He has questions, I have answers:
Why is John McGoff attacking Dan Burton in his first ads? Shouldn’t he establish what he stands for first? Or, does he just stand for Anyone but Dan?
Because Dan’s negatives are so negative that even the most positive positives can’t compete. Lead with your strongest argument. With a primary challenge to a long time incumbent, I think you’re stuck with the fact that the race is going to be a referendum on the incumbent. If Dan’s adequate, voters are going to keep him, regardless of the qualities of the other guy. But, he’s not, so maybe they won’t.
Where’s Barack Obama?
St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.
-Will Sean Astin do a better job selling Hillary Clinton to Indiana voters than he did in a failed attempt at selling tax credits for filmmakers to the General Assembly?
No. But, I love Samwise anyway.
Remember when gubernatorial candidates were the biggest thing at Dyngus Day?
This and all questions/reports about Dyngus Day are just an excuse to have fun saying “Dyngus Day.”
Remember – Rudy was a scrub.
Sorry Doug, I think you mis-spoke. When you said
you meant to say
Personally, there are times I think things like Dan Burton being elected to Congress explain why our Founding Fathers didn’t extend the vote to everyone.
Yeah, sometimes I get all confused between “how things should work” and “how things actually do work.”
I know all about confusion. Some of my fellow Johnson County residents manage to elect Woody Burton to the House, Brent Waltz to the Senate, and Charlie Henderson as their mayor (Greenwood). Talk about a trio of mental giants. If I had kids, I would move away from that area just because it’s obvious to me there’s something in the water that retards clear thinking.
Gotta love that Dyngus Day. My cousin who lives in Mishawaka married into a Polish Catholic family. Dyngus Day is a big party in South Bend. Unfortunately it’s always during tax season, they invited me up for that a couple of times but I was never able to go due to tax season. It’s kind of like Mardi Gras, only at the end of Lent instead of the beginning. It would be fun to go up to South Bend and drink some beer if not for tax season. Oh well, 3 weeks from tomorrow is April 15, only 3 more weeks of working 7 days a week.
Dyngus Day is a wonderful party, full of great food, loud politics, and a heck of headache the next day. I miss my hometown on the Tuesday after Easter because it is the quietest day in St. Joe County and everyone is polite.
When I lived in LaPorte they used to run the city busses for free between about five or six different bars on Dyngus Day.
Of course I was serving a Swedish Lutheran congregation at the time, so I never partook.
Eh.. I’d have gone as an honorary Pole!
Small town…people talk.