{"id":4617,"date":"2012-06-06T11:49:53","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T17:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4617"},"modified":"2012-06-06T11:49:54","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T17:49:54","slug":"lombardi-the-wisconsin-recall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4617","title":{"rendered":"Lombardi &#038; The Wisconsin Recall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dyn.politico.com\/printstory.cfm?uuid=B4910031-94E6-4C9B-B601-9FED8946F74E\">Jim VandeHei and Robin Bravender and David Catanese:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Vince Lombardi, the man who taught Cheeseheads to think with clarity about the severe consequences of victory and defeat, once offered this gem about life: \u201cShow me a good loser, and I\u2019ll show you a loser.\u201d<br \/><Br><\/p>\n<p>Scott Walker last night showed Wisconsin and the country a bunch of pretty good losers in his recall election triumph. In the spirit of tell-it-like-it-is St. Vince, POLITICO offers up a guide to the top five: Democrats, President Barack Obama, public unions, conservative critics and money monks.<br \/><Br><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s why:<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\n\u201cIf winning isn\u2019t everything, why do they keep score?\u201d<br \/><Br><\/p>\n<p>Well, politics is all about keeping score \u2014 and Democrats suffered a good old-fashioned beatdown. They invested seven months of effort, tens of millions of dollars, exhausted volunteers to collect nearly 1 million signatures. Then, they litigated an extremely divisive primary and spent millions more \u2014 all to get back to exactly where they were when they started: with Walker on top.<\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>VandeHei is a UW-Oshkosh graduate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim VandeHei and Robin Bravender and David Catanese: Vince Lombardi, the man who taught Cheeseheads to think with clarity about the severe consequences of victory and defeat, once offered this gem about life: \u201cShow me a good loser, and I\u2019ll show you a loser.\u201d Scott Walker last night showed Wisconsin and the country a bunch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4617"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4618,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4617\/revisions\/4618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}