{"id":36592,"date":"2013-06-05T12:40:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T17:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36592"},"modified":"2014-12-12T10:31:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T16:31:04","slug":"mngop-relax-and-let-the-experts-do-your-thinking-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36592","title":{"rendered":"MNGOP: Relax And Let The Experts Do Your Thinking For You!"},"content":{"rendered":"

MPR’s Daily Current<\/em> – whose Keri Miller is as reliable a PR flak as the DFL has – talked about the upcoming Governor’s race – with a panel of media libs:<\/p>\n

After the Friday Roundtable taping wrapped up, Kerri threw one more question to our guests off the air: \u201cWho is emerging as a GOP candidate to challenge Dayton?\u201d<\/p>\n

Patricia Lopez: \u201cI don\u2019t even know if that name is out there yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Steve Perry: \u201cThe name I keep hearing in sort of an \u2018if only\u2019 vein from Republicans is Julie Rosen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lopez: \u201cShe has not said \u2018no\u2019 and [I heard her give] what sure sounded like a stump speech. She just dropped by the office and I thought, \u2018That sure sounded like a stump speech.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Brian Bakst: \u201cShe would be headed for a primary no matter what, though, because that stadium legislation that she co-sponsored would be a non-sale within the convention.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rosen’s generally good, with a few unfortunate traits, most notably her penchant for being among the first to work “across the aisle” – an inevitable last resort when you’re in the minority…<\/p>\n

…which she was not, back in 2012, she led a small group of Republicans to ingratiate themselves with Helga Braid Nation without bothering to get any spending concessions from the Governor.<\/p>\n

Of course, working with the DFL sans quid pro quo is one of the key criteria on getting the media to accept you…<\/p>\n

…temporarily.<\/p>\n

I direct you to Berg’s Eleventh Law <\/a>(“The conservative liberals \u201crespect\u201d for their \u201cconservative principles\u201d will the the one that has the least chance of ever getting elected<\/em>.”) and its various corollaries, especially the McCain Corollary (“If that respected conservative ever develops a chance of getting elected, that \u201crespect\u201d will turn to blind unreasoning hatred overnight”). You may be certain that if Keri Miller and Patricia Lopez are talking up Julie Rosen, that the Alliance for a Better Minnesota has a campaign in the pocket against her, all ready to go.<\/p>\n

Perhaps “Julie Rosen: Stadiums for the 1%”. <\/p>\n

Lopez – the editor of that notable bellwether for conservatives, the Strib <\/em>– notes:<\/p>\n

Lopez: \u201cThink about how hard it would be for Dayton to run against a moderate, Republican woman. Yikes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m not saying Rosen might not be an excellent candidate. I’m willing to be persuaded. Seriously.<\/p>\n

But the fact that a round table of de facto <\/em>DFL apparatchiks – Steve Perry, for Stu’s sake – are mutedly humming her praises can’t be a good thing, right off the bat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MPR’s Daily Current – whose Keri Miller is as reliable a PR flak as the DFL has – talked about the upcoming Governor’s race – with a panel of media libs: After the Friday Roundtable taping wrapped up, Kerri threw one more question to our guests off the air: \u201cWho is emerging as a GOP […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321,323,121,130],"tags":[115],"class_list":["post-36592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-left","category-big-leftymoney","category-campaign-14","category-tc-media-bias","tag-abm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36592","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=36592"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49724,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36592\/revisions\/49724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}