{"id":2080,"date":"2008-02-04T07:34:15","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T12:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2008-02-04T10:37:27","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T15:37:27","slug":"fate-is-a-fiction-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2080","title":{"rendered":"Fate Is A Fiction Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t believe in Karma – but I do <\/em>believe what goes around comes around.<\/p>\n

Maybe it’s my Scandinavian roots, but I’ve always tried to shy away from “overconfidence” – especially the great proto-American injunction against “counting your chickens before they’re hatched”.<\/p>\n

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So – while I’ve come to regard John McCain as a better option for the GOP nomination than, say, Mike Huckabee or Ron Paul (I’ll get behind him. anyway), I gotta confess; I heard Mac’s statement that he assumes he’ll get the nomination, and thought “this is the sort of thing that people unwittingly say that gets ’em into the history books”.<\/p>\n

So Zogby shows Mitt up by eight in California<\/a>, now. We can’t call it a “turnaround”, since a smallish fraction of the delegates have actually been allocated (that’s what tomorrow’s all about!).\u00a0 And Mac may well be right, and it might not be the worst thing in the world.<\/p>\n

But it reinforces the lesson; if you’re a Republican and you’re reading this, you need to show up at your caucus or primary tomorrow if you’re in one the the Super Di Duper Tuesay states (and Minnesota is one of them) and get your two cents into the works.<\/p>\n

Find your precinct caucus, and hire a sitter, and be there.<\/p>\n

True North has the best wrapup of Minnesota Caucus information<\/a> anywhere, <\/em>plus a caucus finder<\/a>. \u00a0 Read ’em, use ’em, be there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t believe in Karma – but I do believe what goes around comes around. Maybe it’s my Scandinavian roots, but I’ve always tried to shy away from “overconfidence” – especially the great proto-American injunction against “counting your chickens before they’re hatched”. So – while I’ve come to regard John McCain as a better option […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-republicans","category-true-north"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080","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=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}