{"id":1346,"date":"2007-09-24T11:54:45","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T16:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1346"},"modified":"2007-09-24T11:54:45","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T16:54:45","slug":"summing-up-the-third","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1346","title":{"rendered":"Summing Up The Third"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve wondered – what could I possibly say about the race in the Third CD?\u00a0 Especially when the “moderate” hamsters start to mewl<\/a> about the supposed imperative to nominate a fellow fuzzy moderate critter in the Third?<\/p>\n

Now that Jeff Johnson has concluded his op-ed in the Strib<\/a> with this bit here…:<\/p>\n

As long as we nominate a conservative candidate who understands what most of the voters in the Third District care about, we will be successful. A prolife candidate will lose some votes and gain some votes because of that issue. But abortion (or gay marriage, school choice, stem-cell research, gun laws, etc.) will not be determinative in this election unless we’re stupid enough to put up a candidate who is defined by a single, controversial issue and insists on making it central to his or her campaign.<\/p>\n

So far, I haven’t seen any such candidate on the lists of potential Republicans.<\/p>\n

So take heart, conservative voters. If you believe, as I do, that your best candidate for Congress will be conservative both fiscally and — gasp — socially, use this opportunity to throw conventional wisdom on its rear end. This is going to be fun.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…then, frankly, nothing else needs <\/em>to be said.<\/p>\n

But read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve wondered – what could I possibly say about the race in the Third CD?\u00a0 Especially when the “moderate” hamsters start to mewl about the supposed imperative to nominate a fellow fuzzy moderate critter in the Third? Now that Jeff Johnson has concluded his op-ed in the Strib with this bit here…: As long as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346","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=1346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}