{"id":14126,"date":"2010-10-07T06:46:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T11:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14126"},"modified":"2010-10-07T06:47:12","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T11:47:12","slug":"chanting-points-memo-republicans-for-horner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14126","title":{"rendered":"Chanting Points Memo: Republicans For Horner"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dems have turned up the “heat” on the idea that Tom Horner was a Republican this past week. \u00a0My theory is that the DFL has internal polling showing that Horner is taking more – a lot more – Democrat votes than Republicans.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>First, it was the big endorsement from Obama-voting, tax hiking, free-spending “Republicans” Arne Carlson and Dave Durenberger, who are as “Republican” as Randy Kelly ended up “DFLer”.<\/p>\n

And yesterday, it was the endorsement by thirteen “Republican” former legislators.<\/p>\n

Now, I thought it was fair to guess that these “Republicans” weren’t necessarily the post-Pawlenty, or even post-1980, type – the type that actually try to be an alternative <\/em>to the DFL, the type that scare the DFL.<\/p>\n

But I had no idea how far out of the past the Horner campaign had to dig to find these “Republicans”. \u00a0Here’s the list, with their respective ages:<\/p>\n

Searle (90)<\/p>\n

Pillsbury (89)<\/p>\n

Belanger (82)<\/p>\n

Bishop (81)<\/p>\n

Oliver (80)<\/p>\n

Scherer (75)<\/p>\n

Seaberg (74)<\/p>\n

Schrieber (69)<\/p>\n

Peterson (68)<\/p>\n

Leppik (67)<\/p>\n

Ozment (65)<\/p>\n

Jennings (62)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not only were most of these people “Republicans” when “Minnesota Republican” meant “Democxrat with a nice suit”, some of them even date back to when Democrats actually put America first.<\/p>\n

Up next – Whigs, Grangers and Know-Nothings for Horner!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Dems have turned up the “heat” on the idea that Tom Horner was a Republican this past week. \u00a0My theory is that the DFL has internal polling showing that Horner is taking more – a lot more – Democrat votes than Republicans. First, it was the big endorsement from Obama-voting, tax hiking, free-spending “Republicans” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-chanting-points-memo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14126","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=14126"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14129,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14126\/revisions\/14129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}