{"id":28323,"date":"2012-06-04T11:57:37","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T16:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28323"},"modified":"2012-06-04T13:25:19","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T18:25:19","slug":"just-remember-they-think-youre-the-dumb-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28323","title":{"rendered":"Just Remember – They Think You’re The Dumb Ones"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve “Spotty” Timmer, writing in “MNLeft”, yet another lefty group blog:<\/p>\n

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“They Put The Phyrric Into Victory<\/a>”<\/p>\n

Perhaps they – Craig Westover and Jason Lewis,the subjects of Timmer’s piece \u00a0– disagree with Timmer about the current GOP Senator race, but Steve Timmer is the one who put “Phyrric” into “victory”…<\/p>\n

…which, for those of us who even passed remedial history, is spelled “Pyrrhic Victory<\/a>“, after King Pyrrhus of Epirus, who, on noting the casualties he’d taken defeating the Romans at the Battle of Asculum in 280 BC, lamented (according to Plutarch) that “more such victories would undo him”.<\/p>\n

Just keep chanting; “they’re the smart ones. \u00a0They’re the smart ones”.<\/p>\n

Chant. \u00a0You heard me.<\/p>\n

Oh, yeah – they think Kurt Bills hasn’t a chance. \u00a0Maybe they’re right.<\/p>\n

The voters – the live, legal ones that the GOP tends to draw – haven’t actually spoken on that yet.<\/p>\n

It could well be that A-Klo can eke out a…<\/p>\n

…no. \u00a0I can’t go there. \u00a0Too cheap.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: \u00a0They edited it. \u00a0And it’s still wrong.<\/p>\n

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Remember – Democrats are smart. Republicans – they’re<\/em> stupid! Stupid and ignorant! Yepper!<\/p>\n

UPDATE 2: \u00a0Third try’s the charm.<\/p>\n

And, Steve, I’m working these days. \u00a0You?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve “Spotty” Timmer, writing in “MNLeft”, yet another lefty group blog: “They Put The Phyrric Into Victory” Perhaps they – Craig Westover and Jason Lewis,the subjects of Timmer’s piece \u00a0– disagree with Timmer about the current GOP Senator race, but Steve Timmer is the one who put “Phyrric” into “victory”… …which, for those of us […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-lefty-alt-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28323","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=28323"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28329,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28323\/revisions\/28329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}