{"id":60741,"date":"2016-10-31T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60741"},"modified":"2016-10-31T09:01:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T14:01:45","slug":"every-saint-paul-republicans-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60741","title":{"rendered":"Every Saint Paul Republican&#8217;s Fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re a conservative\/Republican in Saint Paul, you get used to having your campaign lawn signs stolen or vandalized.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just kids&#8221;, the local DFLers say &#8211; but then you notice your neighbors&#8217; Obama and Hillary and Betty McCollum and, probably as late as 2010, Wellstone signs are utterly unmolested.<\/p>\n<p>And ideas &#8211; dreams, really &#8211; form in your head. \u00a0Dreams that are probably illegal. \u00a0Given that it&#8217;s Saint Paul, they&#8217;re likely illegal to dream.<\/p>\n<p>In Michigan, a woman got tired of tolerant liberals driving on her lawn to knock over her Trump signs. \u00a0So she took direct action.<\/p>\n<p>And boy, did it pay off:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/14907130_10207766269657967_5535876387041776277_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-60742 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/14907130_10207766269657967_5535876387041776277_n.jpg\" alt=\"14907130_10207766269657967_5535876387041776277_n\" width=\"347\" height=\"416\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She put a homemade spike strip under one of her signs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/14900593_10207766269737969_2737201481463510343_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-60763 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/14900593_10207766269737969_2737201481463510343_n.jpg\" alt=\"14900593_10207766269737969_2737201481463510343_n\" width=\"451\" height=\"598\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One tolerant liberal wrote a check she couldn&#8217;t cash; after blowing out a tire, she couldn&#8217;t actually change the tire. \u00a0She had to call for help.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/14906870_10207766270017976_8545233657434118460_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-60765 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/14906870_10207766270017976_8545233657434118460_n.jpg\" alt=\"14906870_10207766270017976_8545233657434118460_n\" width=\"407\" height=\"308\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Giving me idea? \u00a0Oh, heck yeah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re a conservative\/Republican in Saint Paul, you get used to having your campaign lawn signs stolen or vandalized. &#8220;It&#8217;s just kids&#8221;, the local DFLers say &#8211; but then you notice your neighbors&#8217; Obama and Hillary and Betty McCollum and, probably as late as 2010, Wellstone signs are utterly unmolested. And ideas &#8211; dreams, really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-entitled-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60741","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=60741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60766,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60741\/revisions\/60766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}