{"id":14307,"date":"2010-10-13T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T17:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14307"},"modified":"2010-10-13T12:10:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T17:10:50","slug":"how-big-is-your-tent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14307","title":{"rendered":"How Big Is Your Tent?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the past few weeks, the MNDFL and the Dayton campaign have been trying to hammer on the fact that Tom Horner – who voted for Obama, and hasn’t publicly supported a conservative Republican for office in years – is “A Republican”, just like Tom Emmer. \u00a0They also note that former governor Arne Carlson and former senator Dave Durenberger – liberal Republicans who rejected Ronald Reagan while he was in office – are endorsing Horner. \u00a0Who, by the way, is a “Republican” who proposes a tax-and-spend agenda only marginally less noxious and big-L liberal than Mark Dayton’s.<\/p>\n

“What about that big tent?”, they snark.<\/p>\n

The quick answer is that the tent is <\/em>plenty big; all who favor limiting government and holding the line on spending are welcome. \u00a0Neither Horner, Durenberger nor Carlson have ever stood for either.<\/p>\n

But since we’re on the subject of big tents<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Yesterday, Maurice Hinchey had to get Bill Clinton out to Binghamton to try to rescue his re-election bid and save his House seat. Today, Republican challenger George Phillips trumps Hinchey with a surprise endorsement from former New York City Mayor Ed Koch, a Democrat who has a track record of backing common-sense Republicans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So all you DFLers who were trumpeting the Carlson and Durenberger endorsements last month; shall I expect you to start sending checks to George Phillips? \u00a0Because Ed Koch is obviously the reasonable, responsible, non-extreme, big-tent Democrat<\/em>?<\/p>\n

Of course you should – if you follow your own logic.<\/p>\n

And then, after the election, you can send Randy Kelly a few bucks and an “attaboy” for fighting for principle back in 2005.<\/p>\n

Assuming you really believe all that “big tent” crap.<\/p>\n

We Republicans don’t need a big tent. \u00a0We need to get as many people as we can to crowd into the tent we have, with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the past few weeks, the MNDFL and the Dayton campaign have been trying to hammer on the fact that Tom Horner – who voted for Obama, and hasn’t publicly supported a conservative Republican for office in years – is “A Republican”, just like Tom Emmer. \u00a0They also note that former governor Arne Carlson and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,20,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-democrats","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14307","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=14307"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14314,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14307\/revisions\/14314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}