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| 3/22/2006 1:00:00 PM | Email this article • Print this article | Total exhaustion and the weeks of March
 | Rob Crowe
Columnist
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It’s been an exhausting couple of weeks. I’ve taken on the duties of being president of the Northern Minnesota Builder’s Association for the year and along with my other responsibilities, it has stretched my time and abilities to the limit.
For the first half of March it was the annual builder’s show, the precinct caucuses, a township election and annual meeting and then the unexpected: my Uncle Robert died … on my birthday. I didn’t know about it until the next day and in the seeming mountain of things to do, I had to wait until after Tuesday’s election and annual meeting to collect my thoughts and face the issue.
Fortunately, the funeral was set for Thursday, it was no coincidence that he had been a township officer too. It runs in the family.
I hadn’t been particularly close to him for the past several years, the business of life got in the way. He was particularly influential in my formative years, you can blame him for my constant recitations of happenings on the farm. He was the first to introduce me to the exhaust bark of a John Deere.
I spent many hours as a child perched on the seat of a junk tractor in his farmyard pretending to drive. A highlight of my childhood was starting the B John Deere by hand. I nearly fell over when it fired and I hadn’t released the flywheel soon enough.
He lived on the farm he and my mother and nine of their siblings were raised on. While I was growing up, we spent many hours there with uncles, aunts and cousins, playing and skirmishing and hunting and all. I was privileged to be able to write up some of my reflections about my namesake and recite them at his funeral. I hope to carry on the torch with respect and pride.
These events have left me mentally exhausted so pardon me if I seem a little disjointed. I was able to take time to read the editorial page of last edition of the Age and it appears that logic is particularly absent in the arguments of the local liberal fundamentalists. I usually read the local columnists, not because I want to, but because, in my position as the Token Conservative Writer for the Age, I have to.
I then usually give a short synopsis of each column to management because she finds it particularly annoying and boring to read basically the same column time after time that, were you to condense it to a couple of sentences, just says: “George Bush is bad. I hate George Bush.”
The columnists, following the mantra of the Main Stream Media (MSM) and the DNC, string together a bunch of events or happenings that may or may not have occurred as written and may or may not be connected.
Apparently they have only one goal: paint George Bush as a monster or simpleton or dictator or equivalent. While the tactic is infantile and annoying, I’m glad to see they have chosen it as their plan of action because it shows they are positioning themselves out of contention for winning elections. The easy road is the low road.
All you have to do is pursue the politics of destruction, the modern version of which was developed by the most recent democratic presidential couple and refined to its present form.
The election is coming up, far too rapidly for my present state of mind and I don’t think my own party is particularly well prepared for it. We have much to work on and I’m not sure we’ll get the job done as well as needed.
The thing I am sure of is that our opponents are fixated on fighting someone who will no longer face an election. I hope they keep it up. That makes it all that much easier for us. To them I say: “Keep it up. Constantly flay George Bush. Don’t formulate an agenda. Keep on being negative. Castigate the president without offering a viable alternative. As now, don’t bother with the facts, write just any old thing, the MSM doesn’t know what a fact check is anymore so the truth isn’t necessary. Just write your impressions and the results of the nearest available left slanted poll.”
There. Got that one off my chest. See you in two weeks.
Rob Crowe chairs the Aitkin County Republicans and raises kids and cows on a farm near Hill City.
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