{"id":13350,"date":"2010-09-08T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T17:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13350"},"modified":"2010-09-08T10:25:39","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T15:25:39","slug":"the-memo-must-have-gone-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13350","title":{"rendered":"The Memo Must Have Gone Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since May, the DFL &#8211; via their closely-knit band of media and &#8220;alternative&#8221; media mouthpieces &#8211; have been spending time and money trying to paint Tom Horner as &#8220;the <em>reasonable <\/em>Republican&#8221;, to try to soak votes away from Tom Emmer. \u00a0The conventional wisdom is that, in this year of revulsion with government spending and overreach, there is a huge reservoir of seventies-vintage &#8220;Independent Republican&#8221; liberal Republican fossils out there pining for the days of Arne Carlson and Dave Durenberger.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the last few polls have shown that Horner is drawing more DFL votes than MNGOP votes. \u00a0Considerably more.<\/p>\n<p>So suddenly it&#8217;s OK for <a href=\"http:\/\/thecuckingstool.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/tom-horners-big-lies.html\">leftybloggers to bag on Horner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Couldn&#8217;t see that coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since May, the DFL &#8211; via their closely-knit band of media and &#8220;alternative&#8221; media mouthpieces &#8211; have been spending time and money trying to paint Tom Horner as &#8220;the reasonable Republican&#8221;, to try to soak votes away from Tom Emmer. \u00a0The conventional wisdom is that, in this year of revulsion with government spending and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-lefty-alt-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13350","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=13350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13351,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13350\/revisions\/13351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}