{"id":1760,"date":"2007-12-11T05:22:16","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T10:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1760"},"modified":"2007-12-09T22:10:26","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T03:10:26","slug":"lets-hope-we-can-do-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1760","title":{"rendered":"Let’s Hope We Can Do Better"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miss O’Hara touches on a bunch of things that matter – to me, anyway, and that really is <\/em>the only litmus test on this blog – in this long, excellent post on religion and the Republican slate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

First, some housekeeping:<\/p>\n

Now, I don’t consider myself an “evangelical”. It’s…there’s something screwy about it, namely that the Bible is buried underneath a bunch of self-help books and programs, not to mention lamentably rotten music.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Good Lord, yes.\u00a0 That the religion of Bach and Handel is saddled with the musical narcotics the evangelical movement has foisted on us is a travesty that someone <\/em>oughtta answer for, at least to temporal authority.<\/p>\n

But I\/we digress:<\/p>\n

Mike Huckabee, though, is hurriedly being badged as the “Evangelical candidate”, getting what may be<\/font><\/a> an endorsement from Dr. Dobson, and putting the lie to the conventional wisdom from, hmmm, two weeks ago that the evangelical vote had “matured” and was “finally” putting national defense over social issues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Huckabee reminds me of Arne Carlson, in the sense that he’s “a Republican that the media and the left likes” – presumably because he’s unelectable or because his actual on-the-ground policies are pretty amenable to a big-government nannystater.<\/p>\n

Any time the leftymedia starts beating the drum for a “conservative” – who, as better minds than I have reminded you, is a potemkin conservative anyway – it’s time to notice the hairs on the back of your head standing up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Miss O’Hara touches on a bunch of things that matter – to me, anyway, and that really is the only litmus test on this blog – in this long, excellent post on religion and the Republican slate. First, some housekeeping: Now, I don’t consider myself an “evangelical”. It’s…there’s something screwy about it, namely that the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-conservatism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760","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=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}