{"id":2026,"date":"2014-08-25T12:19:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T19:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/?p=2026"},"modified":"2014-08-25T12:19:59","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T19:19:59","slug":"leftists-lining-up-behind-scott-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/leftists-lining-up-behind-scott-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftists lining up behind Scott Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s <em>Mesa Tribune<\/em> had an interesting op-ed from their frequent leftist contributor, Mike McClellan.<\/p>\n<p>He starts by trying to portray himself as a middle-of-the-road kind of guy by saying that he is an &#8220;Independent.&#8221; It reality, he is a fervent leftist who, from his columns, is very comfortable with the Democrat platform. And he&#8217;s concerned about our Republican primary election for governor, lest we nominate some &#8220;uber-conservative.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Can we be honest here? Yes, Arizona election law allows him, by taking on the &#8220;Independent&#8221; label, to vote in the Republican primary. But in reality he is a Democrat at heart, which means he is crossing over. He freely admits in the op-ed that he is taking the role of a spoiler. And he quite likes Scott Smith.<\/p>\n<p>He really like&#8217;s Smith&#8217;s positions on the issues: he&#8217;s for federalizing the school curriculum with Common Core, for the expansion of Medicaid to implement Obamacare, and Smith likes taxes.<\/p>\n<p>McClellan thinks it would be pretty cool to have Scott Smith and Democrat Fred DuVal as the choices for Governor in the November election. As a leftist, he seems to feel comfortable with either one and meddling in the Republican primary would hopefully prevent the possibility of having someone who would actually promote Republican party principles as governor.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\" data-width=\"450\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-send=\"true\"><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-4419877247826466\";\n\/* 336x280, created 7\/26\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"2207044504\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Click here to visit the Liberty Musings <a href=\"..\/\">conservative politics<\/a> home page.<\/p>\n\t<div class=\"quickshare-container\">\r\n\t<ul class=\"quickshare-genericons monochrome quickshare-effect-expand\">\r\n\t\t<li class=\"quickshare-share\">Share:<\/li> \r\n\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertymusings.com%2Fblog%2Fleftists-lining-up-behind-scott-smith%2F&amp;t=Leftists+lining+up+behind+Scott+Smith+<+The+Liberty+Musings+Blog\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><span class=\"quickshare-facebook\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li>\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertymusings.com%2Fblog%2Fleftists-lining-up-behind-scott-smith%2F&amp;text=Leftists+lining+up+behind+Scott+Smith+<+The+Liberty+Musings+Blog\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Twitter\"><span class=\"quickshare-twitter\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li>\t\t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertymusings.com%2Fblog%2Fleftists-lining-up-behind-scott-smith%2F&amp;media=&amp;description=Yesterday%27s+Mesa+Tribune+had+an+interesting+op-ed+from+their+frequent+leftist+contributor%2C+Mike+McClellan.+He+starts+by+trying+to+portray+himself+as+a+middle-of-the-road+kind+of+guy+by+saying+that+he+is+an+%22Independent.%22+It+reality%2C+he+is+a+fervent%26hellip%3B\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Pinterest\"><span class=\"quickshare-pinterest\">Pinterest<\/span><\/a><\/li>\t\t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertymusings.com%2Fblog%2Fleftists-lining-up-behind-scott-smith%2F&amp;title=Leftists+lining+up+behind+Scott+Smith&amp;source=The+Liberty+Musings+Blog&amp;summary=Yesterday%27s+Mesa+Tribune+had+an+interesting+op-ed+from+their+frequent+leftist+contributor%2C+Mike+McClellan.+He+starts+by+trying+to+portray+himself+as+a+middle-of-the-road+kind+of+guy+by+saying+that+he+is+an+%22Independent.%22+It+reality%2C+he+is+a+fervent%26hellip%3B\" title=\"Share on Linkedin\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"quickshare-linkedin\">Linkedin<\/span><\/a><\/li>\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertymusings.com%2Fblog%2Fleftists-lining-up-behind-scott-smith%2F\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Google+\"><span class=\"quickshare-googleplus\">Google+<\/span><\/a><\/li>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"mailto:?subject=The+Liberty+Musings+Blog:+Leftists+lining+up+behind+Scott+Smith&amp;body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertymusings.com%2Fblog%2Fleftists-lining-up-behind-scott-smith%2F\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share via Email\"><span class=\"quickshare-email\">Email<\/span><\/a><\/li>\t<\/ul>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s Mesa Tribune had an interesting op-ed from their frequent leftist contributor, Mike McClellan. He starts by trying to portray himself as a middle-of-the-road kind of guy by saying that he is an &#8220;Independent.&#8221; It reality, he is a fervent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/leftists-lining-up-behind-scott-smith\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[938,937,889,888,1130,936],"class_list":["post-2026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","tag-arizona-governor","tag-doug-ducey","tag-mesa-tribune","tag-mike-mcclellan","tag-republicans","tag-scott-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2027,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions\/2027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}