{"id":89580,"date":"2025-05-01T07:50:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T12:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89580"},"modified":"2025-05-01T07:50:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T12:50:38","slug":"feeling-seen-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89580","title":{"rendered":"Feeling Seen Yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tim Walz is not the savviest politician who ever kissed a baby or shook a hand. <\/p>\n<p>But yesterday&#8217;s &#8220;knucklehead&#8221; admission may be the dumbest own goal he&#8217;s ever made:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tim Walz: &quot;I could code talk to white guys watching football, fixing their truck doing that&#8230;I was the permission structure to say &#39;look you can do this and vote for this.&#39;&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MiFxrzsBn3\">pic.twitter.com\/MiFxrzsBn3<\/a><\/p>&mdash; James Lynch (@jameslynch32) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jameslynch32\/status\/1917626595218432281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Admitting that one is a marketing charade is a bold move, Cotton.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s see how it works.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Ed Morrissey notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In that sense, perhaps this is Walz&#8217; attempt at sincerity &#8212; by acknowledging what seemed pretty apparent all along. What&#8217;s mystifying is why Walz would admit publicly that Harris was pursuing a race-based calculation in her running mate rather than, y&#8217;know, <em>finding the best person for the job<\/em>. And not just in the one-heartbeat-from-the-presidency sense either, but also in the ability to campaign and to compete against J. D. Vance.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Like candidate, like running-mate, I guess.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Walz is not the savviest politician who ever kissed a baby or shook a hand. But yesterday&#8217;s &#8220;knucklehead&#8221; admission may be the dumbest own goal he&#8217;s ever made: Admitting that one is a marketing charade is a bold move, Cotton.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s see how it works.\u00a0 Ed Morrissey notes: In that sense, perhaps this is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,20],"tags":[472],"class_list":["post-89580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-24","category-democrats","tag-walz-for-vp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89580","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=89580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89581,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89580\/revisions\/89581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}