{"id":3559,"date":"2008-10-30T05:23:06","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T10:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3559"},"modified":"2008-10-30T05:23:06","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T10:23:06","slug":"from-the-playbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3559","title":{"rendered":"From The Playbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Democrat playbook:\u00a0 Project, project, project.<\/p>\n<p>For example, to draw attention away from the ACORN voter registration scandal, find and relentlessly hammer on any GOP-leaning irregularity you can find.<\/p>\n<p>To cover your own candidates&#8217; wierd past assocations, harp for weeks on Todd Palin&#8217;s attendance at a couple of Alaska Independence Party meetings.<\/p>\n<p>To block coverage of real violence, vandalism and intimidation of McCain volunteers and other Republicans, focus on a sad, sick girl in Pittsburgh and her hoax.<\/p>\n<p>Your candidates are all millionaires who&#8217;ve never held real-world jobs and get their clothes from Brooks Brothers by the bale?\u00a0 Burn days of news coverage on Sarah Palin&#8217;s tanning bed and RNC-supplied loaner wardrobe.<\/p>\n<p>And for goodness sake, if you<a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/politics\/article\/0,8599,1854640,00.html\">r Veep candidate is a loose cannon who needs to be hidden from public view<\/a>, call in your markers with the entertainment industry to carry out a noxiously-sexist, misogynistic campaign against Sarah Palin.<\/p>\n<p>Duly noted, folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democrat playbook:\u00a0 Project, project, project. For example, to draw attention away from the ACORN voter registration scandal, find and relentlessly hammer on any GOP-leaning irregularity you can find. To cover your own candidates&#8217; wierd past assocations, harp for weeks on Todd Palin&#8217;s attendance at a couple of Alaska Independence Party meetings. To block coverage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-democrats","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559","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=3559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}