Lefties – many of them, anyway – chalk all dissent from the right up to “hate” or some other form of character flaw.<\/p>\n
Naturally, that rarely-to-the-point-of-almost-never the case.\u00a0 There’s – what’s the word?\u00a0 Nuance.<\/p>\n
Mr. Dilettante writes about that gut feeling some of us get<\/a>\u00a0from Stuart:<\/p>\n The problem that most conservatives have with Franken is that when he entered into the political arena, he was an especially vicious guy. I’d even be willing to forgive him that, though: as they say in Chicago, politics ain’t beanbag. My problem with Franken is that he has a history with someone I know personally. That someone is Evan Montvel-Cohen<\/font><\/a>. The story of Franken’s involvement with Montvel-Cohen, and the scam Montvel-Cohen pulled on the Gloria Wise Boys and Girls Club to get funding that was instrumental to the founding of Air America ,was much downplayed during the election cycle, but it was to my mind the most damning thing about Franken. Montvel-Cohen and I both attended the same college. I know him. He was a shifty character then and most everyone on our campus recognized it. Franken did not, apparently. More importantly, Franken didn’t do much of anything to make the situation right after he became aware of it. To me, the incident speaks to Franken’s character and judgment. And it speaks quite badly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Read the entire post, if you don’t mind…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lefties – many of them, anyway – chalk all dissent from the right up to “hate” or some other form of character flaw. Naturally, that rarely-to-the-point-of-almost-never the case.\u00a0 There’s – what’s the word?\u00a0 Nuance. Mr. Dilettante writes about that gut feeling some of us get\u00a0from Stuart: The problem that most conservatives have with Franken is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5086","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=5086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}