From the Inigo Montoya file

Star Tribune reporter Baird Helgeson keeps saying that word. I do not think it means what he thinks it means:

The emerging portrait of Dayton since he assumed office reveals a more nuanced leader with a strong libertarian strain pulsing in his political blood line.

And then, not more than two paragraphs later, Helgeson harshes his own narrative:

When he needs to, Dayton has proved willing to sidestep the legislative process, as when he signed an executive order calling for a unionization vote for in-home child-care workers. A judge later ruled that Dayton made an unconstitutional end-run around a then GOP-controlled Legislature.

Here's a hint -- libertarians are skeptical of much of what government does, but they especially dislike unconstitutional executive orders. They also don't like $2 billion tax increases.

The portrait of Dayton as libertarian looks a lot like this:

 I could give you my word as a Spaniard