To:\u00a0 Al Franken<\/p>\n
From: Mitch Berg – mere peasant taxpayer<\/p>\n
Re:\u00a0 When The Going Gets Tough.<\/p>\n
Mr. Franken,<\/p>\n
I’m Mitch Berg.\u00a0 I’m a conservative Christian Republican.\u00a0 And I wouldn’t vote for you if you waterboarded me.<\/p>\n
But I’m here to ask of you; please, please, Al – be a profile in courage.<\/p>\n
Resist the tide<\/a>.<\/p>\n Don’t drop out of the race.<\/p>\n Now, I don’t give you a lot of credit in the whole “guts” and “perseverence” department; partly because you run like a scared bunny<\/a> before even the fundamentally-friendly mainstream media, to say nothing of conservative media<\/a>; if you can’t handle Minnesota’s notoriously-DFL-up-sucking deadtree press corps or a group of conservative bloggers, how the hell <\/em>are you going to deal with the knock-down, drag-out of life in the Senate?<\/p>\n No matter.\u00a0 You need…Minnesota needs you<\/em> to stick this battle out.<\/p>\n Go for the nomination, Al.\u00a0 Fight for every last Minnesota DFLer vote.\u00a0 Raise every DFL dollar you can.\u00a0 Battle for every news cycle.\u00a0 Send your oppo people to slash and burn your opponents – and respond in kind to their assaults!<\/p>\n The Minnesota DFL needs it, Al.\u00a0 And deserves it.\u00a0<\/p>\n Please, Al.\u00a0 You’re good enough.\u00a0 You’re smart enough.\u00a0 And dog-gone it, bloggers need you.<\/p>\n That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To:\u00a0 Al Franken From: Mitch Berg – mere peasant taxpayer Re:\u00a0 When The Going Gets Tough. Mr. Franken, I’m Mitch Berg.\u00a0 I’m a conservative Christian Republican.\u00a0 And I wouldn’t vote for you if you waterboarded me. But I’m here to ask of you; please, please, Al – be a profile in courage. Resist the tide. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-2535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-democrats","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535","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=2535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33702,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions\/33702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}