{"id":2239,"date":"2008-03-09T09:27:23","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T14:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2239"},"modified":"2008-03-17T10:45:05","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T15:45:05","slug":"rino-hunting-with-the-architect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2239","title":{"rendered":"RINO Hunting With The Architect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GeeEmInEm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthvmachine.com\/?p=5638\">on Saturday&#8217;s &#8220;upset<\/a>&#8221; (in the same sense that the 1940 NFL Championship was an &#8220;upset&#8221;) in District 41; conservatives Ketih Downey and Jan Schneider <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com\/2008\/03\/08\/breaking-news-erhardt-and-peterson-lose-republican-endorsements\/\">beat <\/a>RINOs and tax-bill traitors Ron Erhardt and Neil Peterson for the GOP endorsements.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>esterday I spent the day helping John Swon \u2014 hereafter to be known only as \u201cThe Architect\u201d \u2014 engineer Jan Schneider\u2019s remarkable first-ballot <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com\/2008\/03\/08\/breaking-news-erhardt-and-peterson-lose-republican-endorsements\/\">smackdown<\/a> of Rep. Neil Peterson in Senate District 41B.<\/p>\n<p>Frivolity ensued.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Speaking of ensuing frivolity; I&#8217;ve been waiting for the past 18 hours for Lori Sturdevant&#8217;s piece on the subject. I might not leave my computer until it comes out.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.keithdowney.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.looktruenorth.com\/images\/FreedomDogs\/janschneiderlogorep.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/electjanschneider.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.looktruenorth.com\/images\/FreedomDogs\/keithdowneylogo.png\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By the way &#8211; notice the number of people in the DFLmedia and the Sorosphere who take it as a given that ejecting the RINOs will automatically cede the districts to the Tics. &#8220;Edina is purple&#8221; is a meme the Strib has been clutching close to its heart like a lucky charm lately.<br \/>\nThey keep forgetting the key lesson of Republican politics in Minnesota this past twenty years:<\/p>\n<p><em>When Republicans act like DFLers with better suits, we lose. When we act like conservatives, we win<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Gil Gutknecht lost. Michele Bachmann won (and, by the standards of November &#8217;06, won big<\/p>\n<p>More Edinians voted DFL in the last few elections, it&#8217;s true; in a year (&#8217;06) where Republicans were punished nationwide for acting like Tics, and where <em>both <\/em>representatives were RINOs of the most base order, why does anyone find that shocking?<\/p>\n<p>This tax increase &#8211; and the six traitors who enabled it &#8211; may be the best thing that ever happened to the Minnesota GOP; in turn, it&#8217;ll be the best thing to happen to Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll need it for damage control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GeeEmInEm on Saturday&#8217;s &#8220;upset&#8221; (in the same sense that the 1940 NFL Championship was an &#8220;upset&#8221;) in District 41; conservatives Ketih Downey and Jan Schneider beat RINOs and tax-bill traitors Ron Erhardt and Neil Peterson for the GOP endorsements. esterday I spent the day helping John Swon \u2014 hereafter to be known only as \u201cThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239","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=2239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}