{"id":1517,"date":"2007-10-29T04:10:14","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T09:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2007-10-29T04:10:14","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T09:10:14","slug":"off-the-bandwagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1517","title":{"rendered":"Off The Bandwagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huckabee stock seems to have taken a bath recently.<\/p>\n<p>First Ringer sounds off with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kennedyvmachine.com\/\">resounding &#8220;sell&#8221; order<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Huckabee appeals to the media and pundits for two reasons.  As a Baptist preacher who seems like a combination between Jerry Falwell and William Jennings Bryant, pundits believe his pro-marriage, pro-life preachings echo those of the stereotypical conservative while his \u201cCross of Gold\u201d economic views have won him fans among the Manhattan\/D.C. publishing nexus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words &#8211; a Republican Lori Sturdevant would like, <em>with <\/em>a drawl?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Are Republicans ready &#8211; or interested &#8211; for a socially conservative Huey Long?  Probably not.  Populism has shallow roots in the GOP, even traditionally.  One might have to go back to Alf Landon, nominated in 1936 amid the Kansas sunflowers and Republican dread over their election prospects, to find even a minor populist leading the national ticket.  And given the results of that election, the argument for another populist nominee seems slight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Huckabee &#8211; the man from Hopeless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huckabee stock seems to have taken a bath recently. First Ringer sounds off with a resounding &#8220;sell&#8221; order: Huckabee appeals to the media and pundits for two reasons. As a Baptist preacher who seems like a combination between Jerry Falwell and William Jennings Bryant, pundits believe his pro-marriage, pro-life preachings echo those of the stereotypical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}