{"id":21771,"date":"2011-08-16T04:07:42","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T09:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=21771"},"modified":"2011-08-16T04:07:42","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T09:07:42","slug":"shhhhh-nobody-tell-the-dfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=21771","title":{"rendered":"Shhhhh. Nobody Tell The DFL."},"content":{"rendered":"

Ron Fournier at National Journal <\/em>had, um,\u00a0\u00a0a curious take on the Pawlenty legacy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

What a shame. What a shame that Pawlenty bowed to the tea party wing of his party and abandoned the qualities that made him a popular two-term Minnesota governor. He was once known for his blue-state moderation and political courage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Political courage? \u00a0Fournier got that right. \u00a0Politically, the guy was King Leonidas.<\/p>\n

But I can just hear the Twin Cities’ leftybloggers squealing like stuck little piggies over that “blue-state moderation” bit. \u00a0Yeah, TPaw got a reputation as a “moderate” in the MN House. \u00a0And he was too moderate on fringe issues for some conservatives.<\/p>\n

But the defining events of his administration – every one of them – related to his dogged adherence to his promise to stick to his “no new taxes” pledge, made to put him over the top in the 2002 GOP convention.<\/p>\n

In that respect – the one that matters – Pawlenty was a Tea Partier years before anyone used the term.<\/p>\n

Not anymore. A fact that says as much about today\u2019s GOP as it does about Pawlenty himself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No. \u00a0It says as much about the myopia of the media – its desire to conjure a “moderate GOP” from nowhere, or its need to do so for the benefit of the Democrats – as it does about the GOP.<\/p>\n

And I think even the Twin Cities’ DFL would agree. Right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ron Fournier at National Journal had, um,\u00a0\u00a0a curious take on the Pawlenty legacy: What a shame. What a shame that Pawlenty bowed to the tea party wing of his party and abandoned the qualities that made him a popular two-term Minnesota governor. He was once known for his blue-state moderation and political courage. Political courage? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21771","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=21771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21783,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21771\/revisions\/21783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}