{"id":10385,"date":"2010-05-03T05:59:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T10:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10385"},"modified":"2010-05-01T17:11:47","modified_gmt":"2010-05-01T22:11:47","slug":"why-we-turn-to-leftyblogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10385","title":{"rendered":"Why We Turn To Leftyblogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the Minnesota GOP congratulates Tom Emmer for his victory at the convention over the weekend, I thought it’d be fun to take a trip in the wayback machine to visit the keen-eyed analysis visited upon the GOP race by those keen-eyed monitors of the conservative psyche at MNPublius a week ago today<\/a> (with emphasis added):<\/p>\n

Immediately after Margaret Anderson Kelliher\u2019s endorsement by the DFL, the Republican party and Marty Seifert\u2019s campaign engaged in the time-honored ritual of issuing boilerplate press releases attacking her. Neither press release was particularly notable, as is always the case. What was notable, though, was that Tom Emmer\u2019s campaign didn\u2019t bother. The exercise probably took the Seifert campaign all of two minutes. It makes me wonder: Is the Emmer campaign giving up on the gubernatorial race<\/strong>?<\/p>\n

Emmer, who has long been the underdog in the Republican race, has been the target of several nasty attacks from the Seifert campaign. Have they shaken his will to continue in this race to the point that his campaign won\u2019t spend two minutes to put together a boilerplate statement on MAK\u2019s endorsement<\/strong>? It would be a shame if Seifert was able to push Emmer out of the race by resorting to personal attacks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Good call, Jeff Rosenberg!<\/p>\n

Can’t wait to see your call on the general!<\/p>\n

No, I’m going to speculate that there were two reasons for this:<\/p>\n

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  1. Emmer didn’t do smears.\u00a0 He didn’t counter-smear during the campaign, when his ancient DUI issues raised a brief kerfuffle.<\/li>\n
  2. And in fact he won’t need to.\u00a0 Because Kelliher is a sideshow.\u00a0 She’ll have no significant money to work with for the next four months, as the DFL establishment engages in fratricide leading up to the August primary; even in the unlikely event that she survives the primary, who cares?\u00a0 She’s about the most unexiting choice for governor this state has ever had.\u00a0 Margaret Anderson-Kelliher’s week-old candidacy is already in a coma, barely getting traction even against Dayton and Entenza, much less the rest of the state.\u00a0 Why would Emmer waste the time it took to even mention her endorsement?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Back to MNPublius:<\/p>\n

    Or perhaps I\u2019m reading this all wrong, and they just haven\u2019t gotten to it yet. Looking at their press release page, Emmer\u2019s campaign has never released a single press release on a weekend. Maybe their campaign only works from 9 to 5 on weekdays, and they\u2019ll get to it today. If that\u2019s the case, then they don\u2019t really deserve to win.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Which says more about the lefty alt-media’s addiction to “West Wing”-style drama than the merits of the Emmer campaign.\u00a0 And may be a bit about Emmer’s priorities; after the Unity Breakfast Saturday morning, when many candidates would be hitting the road to start the grind, and as DFL policy-wonk wannabees were sitting in Hell’s Kitchen trying to get a better deal on placard-printing on a Saturday?\u00a0 Emmer was at his kid’s first communion.<\/p>\n

    Maybe MNPublius will interpret that as a sign of resignation, I dunno.\u00a0 I think it shows who’s in control at this point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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