I just got back from my BPOU convention and I’ve got some news….if you can keep a secret. For those of you who don’t know, BPOU stands for Basic Political Organization Unit. Depending upon where you’re at, the BPOU may be as large as a county or may be aligned to Minnesota House District. My BPOU is for the entire county and 2 House districts are represented in it.
Our BPOU is fortunate. Our House and Senate representatives are strong conservatives. As a result, each of our endorsements came on the first ballot and were just shy of unanimous (even a strong conservative will find someone who thinks they aren’t ALL conservative ALL the time!)
We went through proposed plank ammendments approving many and setting aside a few that were too specific or appeared already covered in the existing platform planks.
Sounds pretty straight forward and boring right?
So what’s the secret? Promise you can keep it?
The secret is…….
Based on what I saw today, the overreaching by Democrats at the State level, where they passed and overrode a veto of the largest tax increase in Minnesota history and brought us a nearly $1B budget deficit, has energized Minnesota Republicans like never I’ve seen before. As a result, in November, we will see a Republican turnout that in the future will be spoken of in the same reverent braggadocio as used by those who have lived through the record setting snows in Wisconsin i.e. “Yes, I lived through the winter of ’07’08” or “I was a part of the largest Republican turnout in Minnesota history!”
The secret is, that thanks to Minnesota Democrats, Minnesota is solidly in play for the Presidential election and I believe John McCain will win Minnesota.
