OK, so it was\u00a0a rough week.<\/p>\n
It’s July<\/em>.\u00a0 Four months ’til the election.\u00a0 The DFL doesn’t have a candidate yet – and when they do, it’ll be Time magazine’s\u00a0“The Worst Senator In America<\/a>“, 2005 edition.\u00a0 Half of Minnesota doesn’t even know who Tom Emmer is – <\/em>yet.\u00a0\u00a0 And the DFL’s “third party” gambit, Tom Horner, has backfired, drawing three DFLers for every two Republicans – and that’ll get worse as the realization sinks in that Mark Freaking Dayton might be governor<\/em>.<\/p>\n Issues, you say?\u00a0 We’ve got immigration; we’ve got job creation; we’ve got economic growth and resposible government; we’ve got education reform and school choice and Local Government Aid reform and the DFL’s deep, enthusiastic links to everything that sucks about Barack Obama’s administration.\u00a0 They’ve got lies <\/a>and contrived controversies that’ll be forgotten on August 11.<\/p>\n So if you’re one of those lily-livered GOPers who’ve spent the last week wringing their hands over the denouement <\/em>of “TipCreditGate”, stop.\u00a0 Sack up, people; the real race doesn’t even start for a month, and media stunts like the faux <\/em>outrage over the tip credit is the best they’ve got<\/em>.<\/p>\n Bag the panic, folks.\u00a0 This is when the fun part begins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" OK, so it was\u00a0a rough week. It’s July.\u00a0 Four months ’til the election.\u00a0 The DFL doesn’t have a candidate yet – and when they do, it’ll be Time magazine’s\u00a0“The Worst Senator In America“, 2005 edition.\u00a0 Half of Minnesota doesn’t even know who Tom Emmer is – yet.\u00a0\u00a0 And the DFL’s “third party” gambit, Tom Horner, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,72],"tags":[113],"class_list":["post-12070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-mngop","tag-emmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12070","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=12070"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12232,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12070\/revisions\/12232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}