With my years of blogging experience and keen blogging instincts, I’ve learned a thing or two.

Maybe three.

One of them is “when you see a bunch of DFL-linked leftybloggers start ridiculing something in the kind of unison that’d impress a synchonized swimming team, you know there’s something they’re trying to get people to ignore.

This is the piece of the video they’re hooting and hollering about:

It’s after a gubernatorial debate yesterday during which Dayton had taken questions about his settlement with Brad Hanson.

Now, he didn’t necessarily answer the questions; even Pat Kessler notes the paucity of detail:

Dayton – the candidate of the party of “champions of the working fella” – had to settle with a former staffer after appealing his wrongful termination case all the way to the Supreme Court.

So what is he running from?

What about the case is so nasty that Dayton can’t even talk about it with reporters?

And – Kessler’s observations aside – when is the media going to seriously question him?

After all, the “malpractice” suit against Emmer – likely as not just a money grab that uses the election for leverage – got slavering coverage from the regional media.  It was the most important story there was.

And yet we have a gubernatorial candidate who uses his boundless wealth to drag a suit through the courts and…almost nothing?

Kudos to Kessler and WCCO for running it.

Who’ll follow up?