Wednesday is blog day for the Madia campaign, a holiday I will not be observing. One grows tired of following the flock. Adieu, herd!
I just noticed the page shown above, on David Dillon's site. Dillon is a friendly, generally reasonable guy. If he were elected I would not feel nauseous. But he's right when he says I believe his candidacy to be nonviable. We have a de facto two-party system. Occasionally a party nominates an exceptionally weak candidate, potentially providing an opportunity to a non-mainstream challenger. But in CD3, activists blue and red are happy with their candidates. Many people looking for a charismatic new face are supporting Madia. Righties are generally enamored of Paulsen, however illegibly. Dillon simply doesn't have the charisma, money, incisive-but-appealing ideology or sharp oratory to pull off this feat.
On the page shown above, Dillon calls me 'a partisan that supports Madia.' Were someone on Team Dillon to actually have read my blog in recent months, I think a fairer description might have said 'Gavin isn't very partisan and isn't aroused by Ashwin Madia, but he loathes and abominates Erik Paulsen. Since Gavin thinks only one real alternative to Erik Paulsen has a serious shot of winning the CD3 seat, Gavin supports Madia.' (Needless to say, I would never write anything like that--but I enjoy putting myself in other people's shoes from time to time.)
At the January MNIP conclave in Bloomington
when Dillon presented himself as a candidate
