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At the Red Lake County Convention, Steve said something that highlighted another difference that really had not come up before. He mentioned his willingness to spend the next decade in St. Paul in the legislature. I looked around the room and at that point I could see he had lost quite a few people. Conversations after the convention highlighted that fact. I have been told I could not read a room, but I think this was one case where Steve misread it when he said the quite part out loud.
I do not believe the people want professional politicians, people who go to the capital and stay. The longer a representative stays in the legislature, the more they become entrenched in the swamp and the less they can relate to the voters. They forget where they came from and why we sent them there. It is a big reason I am a fan of term limits and will pledge not to spend more than three terms in the house if elected, then it will be time for new blood. Even that may be too long.
Political parties have a strong aversion to term limits. It takes a lot less money to keep an incumbent in office than it does to win an election from scratch. Why muck up a 95% re-election rate? We the People have a keen understanding of the negative impact of such notions.
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