{"id":36728,"date":"2013-06-11T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T17:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36728"},"modified":"2014-12-12T10:31:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T16:31:04","slug":"well-get-the-government-saul-alinsky-says-we-deserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36728","title":{"rendered":"We’ll Get The Government Saul Alinsky Says We Deserve"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was one of those “Mission Accomplished” moments.\u00a0 But not in a good way.<\/p>\n

A week or so I was talking with someone who was considering running for a fairly important political office.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This person would be anidealcandidate for this office – by which I mean both “as a candidate” and “as a conservative policymaker”.\u00a0 I’m not going to go into specifics – I don’t want to give anyone the faintest whiff of a thread by which to identify them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So what’s holding them back?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nope – not the fundraising.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It’s the trashing they’d expect to get from the Alliance for a Better Minnesota (with the willing connivance of a media that carries ABM’s water).\u00a0<\/p>\n

And I have to think; that has got to be one of Alida Messinger’s goals – to make running for office as a conservative such an intimately-brutal, self-abnegating torture test\u00a0that good people can’t justify putting themselves and their families through it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mission Accomplished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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