{"id":67264,"date":"2018-06-27T11:03:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T16:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67264"},"modified":"2019-02-08T06:06:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T12:06:11","slug":"open-letter-to-tim-walz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67264","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter To Tim Walz"},"content":{"rendered":"

To:\u00a0 Represenative Tim Walz
\nFrom:\u00a0 Mitch Berg, Ornery Peasant
\nRe:\u00a0 Sell Sell Sell<\/p>\n

Rep. Walz,<\/p>\n

You’re running in a primary this fall against a dog’s breakfast of people who, notwithstanding your attempt to re-paint yourself as a “progressive”, are far, far to your left.<\/p>\n

To your credit, you’ve taken that “re-painting” pretty seriously:<\/p>\n

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Rep. Walz, burning whatever cred he may have had with gun owners by french-kissing “Moms Want Action” in 2016.<\/p><\/div>\n

But your fellow DFLers prefer their “Democratic Socialism” neat.\u00a0 No ice.<\/p>\n

And apparently, with a little communist chaser<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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For years, I’ve heard my Democrat friends chanting “Ronald Reagan wouldn’t get endorsed by today’s GOP” – with the premise being Reagan was “too centrist” for today’s GOP . It’s a perfectly plausible claim, if you have no idea about the history of the GOP; go and google “A Time For Choosing”, the full hour-long speech, if you need proof; it’d fit in at any Tea Party meeting in the past decade. If anything, Reagan would still scare the DC establishment; George Will was deeply unhappy with Reagan’s performance, and we know what George has been up to lately.<\/p>\n

So no – Reagan would *not* have trouble in today’s GOP, or at least the part of the party that swept the elections in 2010 and 2014.<\/p>\n

But Paul Wellstone and Hubert Humphrey would get laughed out of today’s Democratic Party. Of that, there can be no doubt.<\/p>\n

That is all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To:\u00a0 Represenative Tim Walz From:\u00a0 Mitch Berg, Ornery Peasant Re:\u00a0 Sell Sell Sell Rep. Walz, You’re running in a primary this fall against a dog’s breakfast of people who, notwithstanding your attempt to re-paint yourself as a “progressive”, are far, far to your left. To your credit, you’ve taken that “re-painting” pretty seriously: But your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,320,69,370],"tags":[406],"class_list":["post-67264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-mndfl","category-socialism","category-the-bernie-bros","tag-tide-pod-evita"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67264","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=67264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67265,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67264\/revisions\/67265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}