The media has been breathlessly trying to set up Tom Horner as a “non-extreme” Republican alternative to Tom Emmer.\u00a0 For some, it’s a matter of conflating “Republican” and “Conservative”.\u00a0 For others, it’s a simple desire to spoof the GOP for the DFL’s beneift.<\/p>\n
But the more you look at Horner’s political record – which, let’s make sure we’re clear on this, is entirely as a political consultant, as opposed to “an elected official or representative” – the more you realize that Horner’s entire career is built on making government bigger<\/em>.<\/p>\n This blog, and many other Minnesota conservative bloggers, will be going over the Horner record in coming weeks.<\/p>\n The upshot?\u00a0 It’s looking pretty likely that Tom Horner will make a good, smallER government alternative to the DFL – but no Republican to the right of Ron Erhardt in his or her right mind should look at Horner as anything but <\/em>“DFL Lite”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The media has been breathlessly trying to set up Tom Horner as a “non-extreme” Republican alternative to Tom Emmer.\u00a0 For some, it’s a matter of conflating “Republican” and “Conservative”.\u00a0 For others, it’s a simple desire to spoof the GOP for the DFL’s beneift. But the more you look at Horner’s political record – which, let’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10957,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10956\/revisions\/10957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}