{"id":59808,"date":"2016-08-03T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59808"},"modified":"2016-08-02T15:58:41","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T20:58:41","slug":"bergs-11th-law-is-also-inerrant-and-immutable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59808","title":{"rendered":"Berg&#8217;s 11th Law Is Also Inerrant And Immutable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Strib <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/primary-election-endorsements-john-howe-is-pragmatic-choice-in-gop-2nd-district-race\/388884941\/\">endorses John Howe for the CD2 congressional<\/a> seat currently held by John Kline.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing against Howe, who was a capable legislator and an estimable mayor of Red Wing &#8211; but this endorsement is a classic example of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?page_id=5033\">Berg&#8217;s 11th Law<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Berg\u2019s Eleventh Law of Inverse Viability: The conservative liberals \u201crespect\u201d for their \u201cconservative principles\u201d will the the one that has the least chance of ever getting elected.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jason Lewis is the endorsed candidate, with immense name recognition and a record as the father of modern Minnesota conservatism. \u00a0Darlene Miller is John Kline&#8217;s preferred candidate. \u00a0The fourth, the putative Trump-supporting candidate Hey Look At Meeeee, along with Howe, rounds out the field.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be interviewing Jason Lewis this coming Saturday on the NARN, by the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Strib endorses John Howe for the CD2 congressional seat currently held by John Kline. Nothing against Howe, who was a capable legislator and an estimable mayor of Red Wing &#8211; but this endorsement is a classic example of Berg&#8217;s 11th Law: Berg\u2019s Eleventh Law of Inverse Viability: The conservative liberals \u201crespect\u201d for their \u201cconservative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,280,72],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-59808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-16","category-circular-firing-squad","category-mngop","tag-mn-cd2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59808","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=59808"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59812,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59808\/revisions\/59812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}