The Mississippifarian: "Is Mike Ciresi The Answer?"

It seems Mark Gisleson over at the Mississippifarian may still not trust our motives, but he certainly agrees with what we say.

"Mike Ciresi is still valuable to the DFL, but only if he puts his name on the ballot in the DFL column as the anti-Ventura. Early polls show Ventura handing victory to Norman Bertram Coleman, the senior U.S. Senator from Minnesota who’s been conjugally linked to Laurie Coleman (reputedly his wife but if so the relationship must be fairly strained if every joint appearance triggers greenscreen debates).

If Jesse stays out, Ciresi can still pull his name or, if that’s not within the rules, just not campaign. If Jesse gets in, DFLers have a last chance at going with someone who can match up well with a snake oil salesman and a former pro wrestler. A two-timing weasel and a steroid-using atheist running against a Catholic Dad of the Year, the hero of Bhopal, the guy who got Big Tobacco to subsidize Minnesota’s tax base. I like that match up.

Ciresi would hold the Dems and cause Jesse to dig into Norm’s base. Franken would just split the extremists and nuts with Jesse; Franken telling the jokes, Jesse repeatedly revealing that he is the joke.

Ciresi getting publicly geting back in could scare Jesse off. It’s pretty obvious that Al and Norm don’t scare Mrs. Janos’ boy James in the slightest. And after the filing deadline? Expect the ‘pugs to dribble out the Franken f-bombs and rape jokes one after another after another.

Once the ‘pugs get past that summer filing deadline, it will be all bad jokes all the time right up until November, and then Norm Coleman and his cheatin’ heart will be back in DC for another six years of selling his vote to the most loathesome bidder. [Note: if you substitute "Al Franken" for "Norm Coleman" in that cheatin' heart search, you'll get twice as many matches, but none of which talk about Al as unfaithful. The Norm matches? Pretty much what you'd expect from a philanderer who knows to tip the doorman heavily: lots of innuendo, light on the photographic evidence.]

Is Mike Ciresi the answer? Maybe, maybe not. But he is the anti-Jesse, a vaccine against the dreaded 3-way (a race Dems always seem to lose in MN), assuming he files. I hope he does, because right now Republican money men are promising Jesse the world if he gets in because they, like me, are certain that Jesse in the race means Norm’s on pace to get re-elected."

It sounds strikingly similar to our last post "Ventura for Senate? Not So Fast." We are not encouraging Ciresi to run a fourth-party candidacy, that would just be loony. We are simply pointing out the fact that if Ciresi enters, it may discourage Ventura from entering, and Ciresi can act as a safety net for the DFL for when Franken collapses.