{"id":67868,"date":"2018-09-04T05:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T10:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67868"},"modified":"2018-09-02T19:17:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T00:17:02","slug":"he-who-forgets-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67868","title":{"rendered":"He Who Forgets History&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/franken-running-office-havent-ruled\/\">Al Franken hasn\u2019t ruled out running for office again<\/a>.\u00a0 Why not?\u00a0 In Minnesota, he\u2019s guaranteed 40% of the vote, from people who reflexively vote Democrat regardless of who\u2019s running.\u00a0 And Name Identification will get him another 5% from the Undecided-Uninformed crowd who look at the ballot and say: \u201cOh yeah, I\u2019ve heard of him.\u201d\u00a0 A couple more boxes of ballots from the trunk of the car and he\u2019s back in office.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s sad, really.\u00a0 The American political system was intended for citizen-legislators to briefly meet to handle problems, then resume their daily lives.\u00a0 Professional politicians have no daily lives.\u00a0 When they\u2019re forced out of office, they\u2019re like those 70\u2019s bands that routinely filled the stadium in their heyday but now hope to get booked at the Medina Ballroom.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Watching the Attorney General primary on the GOP side &#8211; where perennial candidate and, er, colorful personality Sharon Anderson, who is not the former Channel 5 personality got over 30% of the vote &#8211; I hate to say, this isn&#8217;t just a Democrat phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>Although with Sharon Anderson it&#8217;s a laughing matter.\u00a0 With Stuart&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Al Franken hasn\u2019t ruled out running for office again.\u00a0 Why not?\u00a0 In Minnesota, he\u2019s guaranteed 40% of the vote, from people who reflexively vote Democrat regardless of who\u2019s running.\u00a0 And Name Identification will get him another 5% from the Undecided-Uninformed crowd who look at the ballot and say: \u201cOh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-senator-franken"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67868","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=67868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67872,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67868\/revisions\/67872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}