{"id":511,"date":"2007-02-27T18:13:10","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T00:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/02\/27\/511\/"},"modified":"2007-02-27T18:30:27","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T00:30:27","slug":"511","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=511","title":{"rendered":"MN RINOs for McCain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Strom runs down the list of Minnesota political luminaries &#8211; and former luminaries (mostly the latter) and notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0Hmm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnmccain.com\/Informing\/News\/PressReleases\/d9213fbe-798c-4db5-861e-754366b5795a.htm\"><font color=\"#0066cc\">The McCain campaign has announced its &#8220;Minnesota Team<\/font><\/a>,&#8221; and overall the list is very heavy on the liberal Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Very Heavy.<\/p>\n<p>Very very heavy on the liberal Republicans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And, after noting the list&#8217;s leftness of center and longness of tooth, asks&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why was Pawlenty so unsuccessful in filling out this list with big names? Where are the big money people other than Eibensteiner?<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm. Where is everyone else going? Romney or Guiliani? Or just waiting in the wings?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0MOB Mayor Andy Aplikowski <a href=\"http:\/\/www.residualforces.com\/2007\/02\/27\/mcplentys-team-minnesota-final-nail-in-da-coffin\/\">says<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I can tell you that many people I have talked to about McCain, are supporting him solely based on his military career, and time served in the Hanoi Hilton. I would never begin to attack them or McCain for that, but I would strongly urge anyone seriously considering McCain to look at his Senate career instead. That\u2019s the kind of President we will get with McCain.<\/p>\n<p>Some other names on the list that I know can simply be summed up by saying that they believe the Government should solve every and any problem. RINOs, if you will. We\u2019re gonna be ground zero in the 2008 Presidential melee for Republicans, and this is the list of people McCain and Pawlenty put together to go twist arms? Frankly, a lot of these people won\u2019t even be listened to by the conservative base of the Republican party.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gotta confess &#8211; I&#8217;d <em>love <\/em>to be able to support McCain.\u00a0 He&#8217;s a war hero, for crying out loud.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But McCain\/Feingold would only be forgiveable if McCain were to ask for forgiveness &#8211; and, better yet, seek atonement by sponsoring an immediate repeal.<\/p>\n<p>Without that?\u00a0 I just can&#8217;t see it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Strom runs down the list of Minnesota political luminaries &#8211; and former luminaries (mostly the latter) and notes: \u00a0Hmm. The McCain campaign has announced its &#8220;Minnesota Team,&#8221; and overall the list is very heavy on the liberal Republicans. Very Heavy. Very very heavy on the liberal Republicans. And, after noting the list&#8217;s leftness of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","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=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}