{"id":1181,"date":"2008-08-28T17:30:27","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T21:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2008-08-28T17:30:27","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T21:30:27","slug":"im-not-sure-i-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/08\/28\/im-not-sure-i-understand\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Not Sure I Understand . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/\">excitement of some folks<\/a> at the prospect of Mitt Romney as a VP.\u00c2\u00a0 Let&#8217;s review Romney&#8217;s apparent downsides &#8211; 1) out-of-touch rich, 2) values his religion more than good public policy, and 3) is a complete phony.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe it&#8217;s just me, but that&#8217;s the sort of thing that Republican voters just eat up, no?\u00c2\u00a0 And it&#8217;s worth remembering that it describes George Bush pretty well, too.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m not saying that Romney&#8217;s anything to be concerned about (as a VP candidate, anyway)*, but as a Dem, I&#8217;d far rather see a freakshow like Huckabee or sadsack Lieberman on the ticket.<\/p>\n<p>*This would be a completely different race if the GOP had had the sense to pick Romney as its nominee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the excitement of some folks at the prospect of Mitt Romney as a VP.\u00c2\u00a0 Let&#8217;s review Romney&#8217;s apparent downsides &#8211; 1) out-of-touch rich, 2) values his religion more than good public policy, and 3) is a complete phony.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe it&#8217;s just me, but that&#8217;s the sort of thing that Republican voters just eat up, no?\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}