{"id":14737,"date":"2010-10-28T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14737"},"modified":"2014-10-05T14:38:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T19:38:38","slug":"top-five-reasons-dayton-should-not-be-governor-5-we-are-better-than-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14737","title":{"rendered":"Top Five Reasons Dayton Should Not<\/i> Be Governor – #5: We Are Better Than This"},"content":{"rendered":"

Think back over the past six months of Mark Dayton’s campaign. Think over the ads he’s run.\u00a0 Think back over the messages.<\/p>\n

Why would you vote for <\/em>Mark Dayton?<\/p>\n

Now, make no mistake; the Dayton campaign – and its “third-party” advertising from the Alliance for a Better Minnesota, which is “third party” only on the most technical sense of the term, having been funded largely by the Dayton family – has tried to give you all sorts of reasons to vote against Tom Emmer<\/em>; two drunk driving arrests 20 and 30 years ago, some grossly out-of-context statements about food server wages and legislative records and some poking and prodding at his conservative voting record.<\/p>\n

But why would one vote for <\/em>Mark Dayton?<\/p>\n

Let’s go through his ads and see if we can find a positive, affirmative <\/em>reason to vote for <\/em>Mark Dayton, rather than against Tom Emmer.\u00a0 Let’s run through the Top Five reasons:<\/p>\n

5. He wants to tax “the rich”<\/strong>.\u00a0 Which “rich?”\u00a0 We’ll come back to that later<\/a>.<\/p>\n

4. He was a high school teacher forty years ago, and will make sure that schools get more money, or something<\/strong>. The message is a little vague.<\/p>\n

3. Er…<\/strong><\/p>\n

I got nothing.<\/p>\n

The fact is, Mark Dayton’s entire campaign has been run on slime.\u00a0 Think of the campaign’s salient points, such as they’ve been:<\/p>\n