{"id":10326,"date":"2010-04-26T07:16:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T12:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10326"},"modified":"2010-07-07T19:51:16","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T00:51:16","slug":"wishful-thinking-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10326","title":{"rendered":"Wishful Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that the DFL has endorsed Margaret Anderson-Kelliher, they get to answer the question “we endorsed who?<\/em> How?\u00a0 Why?”<\/p>\n

The DFL endorsement is a traditional kiss of death.\u00a0 The DFL’s real <\/em>candidates, Dayton and Entenza and Gaertner, are all going directly to the primary – itself an indication of how out-of-touch the DFL’s power elite and activists are.<\/p>\n

The conventional wisdom is that the GOP, which will have a candidate this weekend, is going to have a three month head start on the actual campaign, while the DFL dukes it out among itself until the August primary.<\/p>\n

The conventional wisdom omits that the Strib <\/em>is going to be running interference for the DFL:<\/p>\n

Republicans claimed to be gleeful over Kelliher’s endorsement. GOP Deputy Chair Michael Brodkorb said Kelliher has presided over an “ineffective Legislature.” He visited the DFL convention to watch its party contest.<\/p>\n

GOP gubernatorial candidate Marty Seifert said, “While the Republican Party will be united behind one candidate in less than a week, the DFL will have a bruising primary battle for months.”<\/p>\n

But Democrats were quick to praise their convention for its civility. “This was the most courteous, cordial convention I can remember,” veteran delegate Randy Schubring, of Rochester, said Saturday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So what<\/em>?\u00a0 Let’s see if they can say that in July.<\/p>\n

Republicans may not be able to say the same thing. In advance of Friday’s gathering to pick the GOP gubernatorial candidate, Seifert and Tom Emmer, both members of the state House, waged a heated, testy fight for their party’s nod.<\/p>\n

The two men have battled inside the party for years, developing a bitter rivalry even before they were leading candidates for their party’s endorsement. Their supporters appear to have no end of enmity for their rivals, shaping a battle thatwill spill onto the GOP convention floor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rubbish.\u00a0 There is <\/em>an end to the emnity.\u00a0 It’s what conventions are for<\/em>, for starters.<\/p>\n

And if for some reason the GOP forgets what’s really at stake in this election, there a couple hundred thousand Tea Partiers (or as the Strib <\/em>says, “dozens”) out there who’ll be happy to remind them.<\/p>\n

It’s in the Strib’s <\/em>interest, of course, to try to fan the conflict – or any conflict the can find – within the GOP.\u00a0 Because if Kelliher is the DFL’s idea of a gubernatorial candidate, it’s gonna be a rough summer for the DFL and, thus, the Strib<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Fearless prediction:\u00a0 expect a “Minnesota Poll” showing Kelliher with a decisive lead in the very near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that the DFL has endorsed Margaret Anderson-Kelliher, they get to answer the question “we endorsed who? How?\u00a0 Why?” The DFL endorsement is a traditional kiss of death.\u00a0 The DFL’s real candidates, Dayton and Entenza and Gaertner, are all going directly to the primary – itself an indication of how out-of-touch the DFL’s power elite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10326"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10328,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10326\/revisions\/10328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}