While Saint may prefer the political pundit dream team of Britt Hume, Chris Wallace, Karl Rove, and Michael Barone, I know when I'm looking for hard-hitting insightful political analysis, there's no one I would rather listen to than political thriller novelist Vince Flynn, former Minneapolis mayor Sharon Sayles Belton, and Independence Party gadfly Dean Barkley. Yes, that was the "all-star" panel assembled in the KFAN Press Box for Dan Barreiro's show yesterday to analyze the Super Tuesday results.
In fairness to Flynn, he's actually a pretty bright guy and compared to his co-panelists, he sounded like Michael Barone. Sayles Belton seems like a nice woman, but she brought little to the table in terms of insight or analysis. It was just a series of one banal generalization after another. Not sure why you would ask someone who hasn't been relevant on the local political scene for six years to appear in the first place.
Speaking of irrelevant, does anyone other than his immediate family care a whit for what Dean Barkley thinks these days? This clown's claim to fame was that he had a cup of coffee in the US Senate after Paul Wellstone's death in 2002. He took up space there for all of sixty days, yet every time he appears in a public setting he can't wait to start dropping references to "my time in the Senate" as he did yesterday by mentioning that he sat behind Hillary Clinton. Dude, you were a glorified seat filler appointed by our pro wrasslin' governor. Get over it already.
I can't wait until tonight when Barreiro will be joined by Pat Kessler, Kent Hrbek, and Lou Nanne to discuss the implications of Mitt Romney dropping out of the race.
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