{"id":1749,"date":"2007-12-06T06:40:42","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T11:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1749"},"modified":"2007-12-06T06:40:42","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T11:40:42","slug":"sickabee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1749","title":{"rendered":"Sickabee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Messrs. Romney, Giuliani, Thompson, McCain<\/p>\n<p>From: Mitch Berg<\/p>\n<p>Re:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Aaaargh<\/p>\n<p>Gentlemen,<\/p>\n<p>Please use the occasion of the New Hampshire caucuses to <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/PollingUnit\/story?id=3953614&#038;page=1\">put\u00a0Governor Huckabee out of our misery<\/a>\u00a0and make the media shut the hell up about him.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The forces pulling Mike Huckabee to the fore in Iowa are fizzling 1,300 miles to the east, where, in New Hampshire, Mitt Romney holds strong on issues and personal attributes &#8212; and unthreatened by the religion issue he&#8217;ll try to lay to rest in a speech tomorrow.<\/p>\n<div class=\"featurebox\">Romney, a Mormon, is being challenged in Iowa by Huckabee, a Baptist minister whose support has soared particularly in some core Republican groups there &#8212; evangelical Christians, conservatives and strong abortion opponents. But each of those groups is less plentiful in the New Hampshire electorate, and far more supportive of Romney.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Messrs. Romney, Giuliani, Thompson, McCain From: Mitch Berg Re:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Aaaargh Gentlemen, Please use the occasion of the New Hampshire caucuses to put\u00a0Governor Huckabee out of our misery\u00a0and make the media shut the hell up about him. The forces pulling Mike Huckabee to the fore in Iowa are fizzling 1,300 miles to the east, where, [&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-1749","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\/1749","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=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}