{"id":17255,"date":"2011-01-10T12:01:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T18:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17255"},"modified":"2011-01-10T09:35:39","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T15:35:39","slug":"you-heard-it-here-first-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17255","title":{"rendered":"You Heard It Here First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John McCormack on exactly how dark the Pawlenty horse <em>is<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/articles\/t-paw-party_526882.html?page=1\">at <em>The Weekly Standard<\/em><\/a>&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Because Pawlenty has been less coy than other likely presidential contenders about whether he\u2019ll run, he\u2019s generated less interest while the press is concentrating on who\u2019s in and who\u2019s out. And because he sparked little enthusiasm when John McCain considered him as a vice presidential nominee in 2008, he\u2019s perceived by some as unlikely to be a finalist this time. But as he steps out into the national spotlight, Pawlenty hopes his record will attract notice. He may, in fact, be the most underestimated Republican presidential candidate\u200b\u2014\u200bone who could appeal to the Tea Party and the Republican establishment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=16585\">I wrote about Pawlenty <\/a>just before he left office (it seems like it was just last week), Tim Pawlenty gets short shrift from many orthodox conservatives &#8211; at least, those who don&#8217;t believe that perfect is the enemy of just plain good enough.\u00a0 Pawlenty wasn&#8217;t the perfect conservative.\u00a0 But let me put this to you;\u00a0 would you prefer a President who might be mushy on C-list issues like ethanol subsidies, or non-issues for governors like AGW, <em>but who is as genuine and realistic a tax and spending hawk as there is on the national stage <\/em>who can still get elected &#8211; or four more years of Obama?<\/p>\n<p>Of course there are other choices &#8211; at the moment.\u00a0 More on that later.<\/p>\n<p>Just saying &#8211; the GOP could do, and has done, much worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John McCormack on exactly how dark the Pawlenty horse is at The Weekly Standard&#8230;: Because Pawlenty has been less coy than other likely presidential contenders about whether he\u2019ll run, he\u2019s generated less interest while the press is concentrating on who\u2019s in and who\u2019s out. And because he sparked little enthusiasm when John McCain considered him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17255","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=17255"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17258,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17255\/revisions\/17258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}