{"id":2045,"date":"2014-10-21T08:02:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T12:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=2045"},"modified":"2014-10-21T09:09:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T13:09:06","slug":"hoping-for-gaffes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=2045","title":{"rendered":"Hoping for Gaffes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/MLMG142.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2046 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/MLMG142-e1413893184848.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"546\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/MLMG142-e1413893184848.jpg 546w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/MLMG142-e1413893184848-300x281.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2014\/10\/MLMG142.jpg&amp;name=Hoping for Gaffes...\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/buy.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Originally published in the <em>Ann Arbor News, Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, Saginaw News<br \/>\n<\/em>October 19, 2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Back in May, Republican nominee Terri Lynn Land basically <a title=\"Lynn Dodges Auto Bailout Question\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/lansing-news\/index.ssf\/2014\/05\/terri_land_dodges_auto_bailout.html\" target=\"_blank\">face-planted<\/a> on the first hurdle of the Senate race. She has not gotten a whole lot better since then. It made me wonder what other face-plants might look like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Gary Peters is the Democratic nominee for Senate. He has run a pretty smooth campaign, including a jovial spot where he cites a pair of his shoes with holes in the soles as an example of his fiscal frugalness. But what if he let slip a secret\u00a0every tea-party conservative suspects\u00a0to live\u00a0in his coal-black heart?<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Rick Snyder is the current governor and prides himself on relentless positivity. He has shown a few cracks of irritability here and there, but I&#8217;d like to know what a complete breakdown would look like.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Mark Schauer is the Democratic challenger for governor. As a challenger, his job is to spin\u00a0the record of the current governor as negatively as possible. And he has, including equating a pension tax as evidence that Rick Snyder has it in for\u00a0senior citizens.\u00a0Schauer has been very consistent about that. But one goof\u00a0up and people might stop believing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Ann Arbor News, Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, Saginaw News October 19, 2014 Back in May, Republican nominee Terri Lynn Land basically face-planted on the first hurdle of the Senate race. She has not gotten a whole lot better since then. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlive-media-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2045"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2052,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions\/2052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}