{"id":2457,"date":"2008-04-21T05:10:59","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T10:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2457"},"modified":"2008-06-06T11:59:04","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T16:59:04","slug":"load-with-grapeshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2457","title":{"rendered":"Load With Grapeshot!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 3rd CD GOP <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com\/2008\/04\/19\/live-blogging-3rd-cd-gop-convention\/\">unanimously endorsed Erik Paulson<\/a> to run against DFL-endorsed liberal Ashwin Madia on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>This is great; while the media will do their best to portray Madia as a moderate, the fact is that he has had to run far to the left to outflank Terry &#8220;Don&#8217;t Call Me Karla&#8221; Bonoff, leaving the unopposed Paulsen plenty of room in the middle.<\/p>\n<p>The mission for conservatives this next few months is to counter the leftymedia&#8217;s attempts to portray Madia as anything but a machine liberal &#8211; and to be watching for, and ready to repulse, the inevitable smear attack against Paulson in the Strib (a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/archives\/008031.html\">biennial tradition<\/a> for the Minneapolis paper).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Give &#8217;em hell, Erik!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 3rd CD GOP unanimously endorsed Erik Paulson to run against DFL-endorsed liberal Ashwin Madia on Saturday. This is great; while the media will do their best to portray Madia as a moderate, the fact is that he has had to run far to the left to outflank Terry &#8220;Don&#8217;t Call Me Karla&#8221; Bonoff, leaving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457","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=2457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}