{"id":2641,"date":"2008-05-31T19:29:16","date_gmt":"2008-06-01T00:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2641"},"modified":"2008-05-31T19:29:16","modified_gmt":"2008-06-01T00:29:16","slug":"stand-your-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2641","title":{"rendered":"Stand Your Ground!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Twin Cities feminist and longtime DFL stalwart <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/national\/president\/19416774.html?location_refer=Politically%20Connected\">wants feminists to write in Hillary!<\/a> this fall:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Though she acknowledges it is a difficult sell, [DFL Feminist Caucus founder Koryne] Horbal said she and other feminists are promising not to vote for Barack Obama and write in Hillary Rodham Clinton&#8217;s name in November if the disputed Florida and Michigan delegations are not fully seated at the Democratic National Convention and Obama becomes the presidential nominee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But if the move costs Obama the election?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t care,&#8221; Horbal said of the possibility that the move might cost Obama votes. She said she also would not be bothered if the write-in campaign indirectly helped elect John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee. &#8220;Let McCain clean it up for four years, and then we can have Hillary run again,&#8221; she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Democrats; for the love of goddess, by all means follow Mz. Horbal&#8217;s advice.\u00a0 If womyn don&#8217;t stand as one behind <strike>any liberal woman; any liberal woman at all<\/strike> Hillary this fall, when indeed might you get another chance?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be copiously posting the write-in rules in this space over the next five months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Twin Cities feminist and longtime DFL stalwart wants feminists to write in Hillary! this fall: Though she acknowledges it is a difficult sell, [DFL Feminist Caucus founder Koryne] Horbal said she and other feminists are promising not to vote for Barack Obama and write in Hillary Rodham Clinton&#8217;s name in November if the disputed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641","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=2641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}