- Writing for Forbes, Richard Miniter has an interesting piece on why Herman Cain has a chance to win the Republican nomination, and maybe more. The key point is this -- Mitt Romney has a lot of money and a lot of big-time supporters, but he really doesn't move the needle for most movement conservatives, especially the Tea Party folks. Cain is a problematic candidate, but he's been the most consistent Not Romney lately in most of the polling that's been taking place. And I think Miniter understands the reason why -- more than any other candidate in the field, Cain has the "happy warrior" mien.
- First Ringer, my former colleague at Truth vs the Machine and a regular commenter here, has two pieces up at Shot in the Dark. The first details Rick Perry's proposal for a flat tax and the second offers a good slap at the University of Minnesota's strange approach to contract negotiation with its coaches, including the latest choice for public largesse, Jerry Kill. First Ringer doesn't always have the opportunity to write as much as he did back in the TvM days, but he's always worth your time.
- On the stadium front, M. A. Mortenson, the construction company that the Vikings would use to build a stadium in Arden Hills, says they could get the project done by 2015, despite what the Met Council says. I suspect that is right. Whether they get the chance is another matter.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Lightning Round - 102611
Not much time this morning, but a few thoughts:
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so, let me understand this. If the taxpayers are fool enough to cough up hundreds of millions of dollars that we don't have to pay for a stadium that we don't need, they are STILL going to play the next three seasons… Where? The Metrodome? At the U's fresh air funarium? Either way (or both, as has been suggested), if they can do it for three years, why can't they do it for four? Or five? Or…?
J. Ewing
Where? The Metrodome? At the U's fresh air funarium? Either way (or both, as has been suggested), if they can do it for three years, why can't they do it for four? Or five? Or…?
True, JE. Or they could play in the Rose Bowl or the Los Angeles Memoral Coliseum.
There is a lot of wide open space around Des Moines; Zygi could build a HUGE parking lot there!
NW: but you still gonna wear the purple face paint.
NW, we've already got plenty enough hog confinements in Iowa, we don't need the Vikings stinking up the joint.
Without the Vikings, Iowa would be a corny Omaha, just more so.
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