That was the line that a number of media outlets featured prominently on a couple of the evening newscasts last night – corn-fed, well-padded Minnesotans (of unrevealed political orientation, naturally) grumbling “I feel Michele Bachmann threw in her lot with Iowa”.<\/p>\n
To all of those people; please take your faces and pound your kitchen counters with them for a few moments. I’ll tell you when to stop.<\/p>\n
Keep going.<\/p>\n
This is the USA. \u00a0We don’t have internal passports. \u00a0Decades of living in Minnesota, working in Minnesota, representing a district in the Minnesota Senate and then a Minnesota district in DC is not <\/em>negated by observing a bit of Iowa heritage. \u00a0And – let’s face it – Minnesota’s provincialism is cute in an annoying kind of way at best, kind of pathetic at worst.<\/p>\n No, keep bashing. \u00a0I’m not done yet.<\/p>\n I live in Minnesota. \u00a0I grew up in North Dakota. \u00a0If I were running for President, I’d play that for whatever it was worth in both states \u00a0Because I can. \u00a0Because this isn’t a place where peasants are tied to the land, like a bunch of Russian serfs or Chinese subjects who need to show their papers to leave their home province.<\/p>\n No, keep bashing.<\/p>\n The fact that it’s mentioned at all in the media is part of the media’s attempt to start digging up anything <\/em>they can find to try to jack Bachmann out of office next November. \u00a0They’ll need all they can get.<\/p>\n OK. \u00a0Stop bashing yoiur face now.<\/p>\n I hope we’ve learned our lesson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" That was the line that a number of media outlets featured prominently on a couple of the evening newscasts last night – corn-fed, well-padded Minnesotans (of unrevealed political orientation, naturally) grumbling “I feel Michele Bachmann threw in her lot with Iowa”. To all of those people; please take your faces and pound your kitchen counters […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25263","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=25263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25264,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25263\/revisions\/25264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}