Not running for office again means you're allowed to call things as you see them. Dave Durenberger sat down with Peter Idusogie for a long interview. (part one, )
Durenberger on Mark Kennedy:
Durenberger says Kennedy "is basically stuck in a Texas Republican party. It’s not a Minnesota party. ...He needs to be a Minnesota Republican. And I don’t mean necessarily the current so-called ‘from the business right’ or whatever the right is in Minnesota. Business, church, evangelical or something or other. But he needs to be what his instincts, what his upbringing in Pequot Lakes, what his education at St. John’s taught him to be -- a compassionate conservative."
Durenberger is dead right. We've got far too many Texas Republicans representing Minnesota already.