It's wrong to railroad a person. Any person. It must be said and repeated.

[PatrickforO]

54. Yes it was. Isn't it too bad our leadership is so gutless and devoid of moral fortitude

that they fell for it?

I'll tell you what, after the due process proves Franken innocent, a matter of which I'm quite confident judging by what I've seen and heard so far, there had better be some serious and heartfelt apologies from this mob.

That won't completely mitigate this misguided and shortsighted railroad job, but it will go a long way toward EARNING my support back.

I talk with a hell of a lot of people, and just met the other morning with a young millennial who wanted to form a local network of other millennials to push back against stuff that's hurting them, like high student loans, homes priced out of their reach, their inability to build the same levels of wealth we baby boomers enjoyed and had built when we were their age.

He wanted to start a third party. In fact surveys show that an overwhelming majority of millennials want a third party.

Instead, I counseled him to build his network, and guide them to coalesce around several 'make it or break it' issues. Then, I said, think about what the Tea Party did to the Republicans - you're going to do the same thing with the Democrats, only it's going to be you and not Charlie Koch coopting you like happened with the Tea Party.

Because, I told him, if you get twenty or thirty millennials who live in ______ County to show up, with your agenda, en masse to a _____ County Democrats meeting, then you're going to drive the action for that party. Soon, you'll have people in school boards, town and city councils and boards of county commissioners. Then, maybe a couple years down the road, it will be your people who are nominated to run for state legislature and other state level offices. Maybe four years and your group can send a gubernatorial candidate forward. Six to eight years, and you'll control the nominating process for national office.

There's a whole new generation out there and they are cynical, savvy and unhappy with years of being screwed by the system. And they are starting to be restless throughout this country.

The moral of this story? Our guys now better be developing some moral fortitude, stand for something, stick by that something and begin winning elections.