Should Tom Daschle replace Mark Dayton?

[CatholicEdHead]

I am bringing this up because it was on the Ed Schultz Show this afternoon.

Should we bring Tom Daschle across the border and run him against Kennedy?

I am agianst the idea myself. While Daschle may be a good person, he is still covered with lots of fresh mud from his last election and the GOP can easily reopen the Daschle-attack playbook a-la Thune style. They could even add the "carpetbagger" argument.

Daschle may be well known in South Dakota, but he is too-moderate for the Twin Cities strongholds and would flounder in the farm country because many along the western border were exposed to all the Daschle-bashing the past 2 years.

I am still pushing for Wetterling or Klobuchar to run against Kennedy and the other run in the 6th.

[Todd B]

1. I heard this too.

I heard this too on Ed's show - I'm not from Minnesota, but I wouldn't mind seeing him run again if only for the sheer fact that it would sure piss the Republicans off after trying to get him out of the Senate people just vote him back in.

Not that I'd put anything past the GOP, but do they really have any right to use the "carpetbagger" argument after Keyes?

[stackhouse]

2. YES!!! bring Tom Daschle across the border and run him against Kennedy

God yes!!!

since it's aparent there is a distaste for a congresswoman to be senator we need to look elsewhere. so, as a second choice i would support a Tom Daschle move to minnesota, this might do us as well as Mr Tom Daschle a great favor: since in todays political climate of doing each other favors, Recruting Tom Daschle and Returning him to the senate would put him back in the drivers seat and in to a form of power. he would in a sence owe a debt to the state of mn. this would then bring a plethera of benifits to the state of mn...think of all that come as a resute better yet...think what would happen if hillary or babs moved to mn and ran as "our" senate ???

[no name no slogan]

3. ABSOLUTELY NOT

Why oh why do our so-called "friends" do this kind of sh!t? First, they say Al Franken should run. Now, they say Daschle should run. Sorry, but we have PLENTY of qualified candidates right here, without having to import them from elsewhere.

Daschle is from South Dakota, and the MN Repubs would have a field day trashing his ass if he ran in this state. Plus, he's a weak candidate and does NOT represent the values of the DFL as well as our other candidates do. I'm sorry, but Daschle does NOT represent Minnesota-- especially the multi-cultural, multi-racial Minnesota of today.

He's also pretty ripe with the stench of defeat from 2004, too. After Kerry and Edwards, he represents what was wrong with the Democrats' message in 2004: ill-defined, too afraid to take bold stands on the issues and offer a REAL alternative to BushCo's agenda, and the ultimate Washington Insider.

We have a number of very good, very qualified candidates to run against Kennedy for Dayton's seat. Kennedy is EXTREMELY weak, despite what Cheney and the MN GOP think. He's not a popular incumbent, and doesn't have much appeal outside the 6th (or the old 2nd, where he served one term).

We don't need to import failed politicians from other states to represent Minnesota. If we wanted that, we'd just pick Luther or Mondale and be done with it.

[stackhouse]

4. Wetterling or Klobuchar to run against Kennedy?? ABSULUTELY NOT!!!!!!!!

NO FLIPPING WAY!!! thanks to the dfl we lost the only one that would have been great so we need to get tom to move to minnesota

you want to run Wetterling or Klobuchar go ahead keep talking..and kennedy will be in the senate for sure the gop have there number

[no name no slogan]

5. What are you talking about?

this line:
thanks to the dfl we lost the only one that would have been great

If you're talking about McCollum, she decided not to run for Senate on her own. You know, it's quite possible she doesn't want the job.

Just because you want somebody to run doesn't mean they will (or should) run.

[katinmn]

6. No. It's not agood idea. I think we ought to elect another Minnesotan

to Dayton's seat.

Wetterling and Klobuchar both look the strongest to me right now. I know Klobuchar is a true blue progressive.

I'm definately not into rich corporate Dems at all.

[stackhouse]

8. Wetterling or Klobuchar???

with all due respect ...i'll pass on Wetterling and Klobuchar let alone mikey

[Dickie Flatt]

9. Why?

[katinmn]

10. That's fine. I'm not looking for anyone's agreement at this point

I hope a candidate emerges that you can support. There's a little time -- not much.

[stackhouse]

7. so...

if anyone belives McCollum decided not to run for Senate on her own
i got a bridge to sell them. anyone needs to receive at least three phone calls from the dem Pentagon Of Politics assuring there support to run for u.s. senate or congress or the candidate is screwed receiving little or no support. betty recieved no p.o.p. phone calls "clearence" to run for senate buy her not getting any of these phone calls she was told not to run for senate

any u.s. senate candidate needs the pentagon of politics so i guess we have to wait to find out if Tom Daschle gets any of the phone calls from the p.o,p. to move to minnesota and thus puting him back in bussiness

[Tigress DEM]

13. So whose ass do we need to kick to get Betty her calls?

She's by far the best candidate that I've seen. She's on the track that John Conyers is running as far as integrity and out there kicking ass and taking names. She's even stood up to the Chimp.

I asked her to run and about a week later she made her formal decline, so I suppose a lot of other people must have mentioned it too.

[no name no slogan]

15. Seriously, what are you talking about?

:tinfoilhat:

Not quite sure what you mean by a "pentagon of politics", but the DFL is run a lot differently from the GOP. The party power structure is VERY weak, and the candidates are not accountable to the party in any way.

You'd NEVER see somebody like Cheney picking our Senate and Governor candidates.

Face it: Betty saw the writing on the wall. If she ran for Senate, she would have faced a VERY tough four-way endorsement fight and quite possibly a VERY expensive primary fight, and then she'd STILL have to win in November against a very well-funded Republican. That's a hell of a lot of work for a junior Senator's seat in the minority party.

She's in a good spot in the House. She has a safe seat for as long as she wants, which means she doesn't have to worry about getting re-elected as much as other Reps. That makes it easier for her to be an advocate for not just St Paul but the whole state.

McCollum is quite capable of making her own choices based on the circumstances she saw. And for her, this is probably her best choice for the time being.

[Dickie Flatt]

11. This is the worst idea I have ever heard

Well, that's a bit of an exagerration. But still, this is pretty damn stupid.

[preciousdove]

12. Did we butt heads over Rethuglican-lite Kelly?

Just wondering.

[Tigress DEM]

14. Who? Oh, St Paul Mayor who says he's a DEM.

Well, he's given me one of my new standards in selecting a Candidate, did you take money from repubs and why?

[Demrock6]

16. That would be an absolutely bad idea.

Tom is what we call a Pansycrate. He did not stand up and fight with the passion we need.

[Deja Q]

17. No, thank you.

[jpgray]

18. On a personal level, I really like Daschle.

Politically, I don't have much use for him. We've done a great job with ACT and other groups to mobilize MN Democrats and we can do better and we can build up some stars of our own state rather than borrow those of another.