{"id":1817,"date":"2007-12-26T06:10:35","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T11:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1817"},"modified":"2007-12-26T06:10:35","modified_gmt":"2007-12-26T11:10:35","slug":"groomed-for-slaughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1817","title":{"rendered":"Groomed For Slaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fraters notes a piece by Kim Strassel that sums up my <em>big <\/em>problem with Huckabee (emphasis added by me):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Since the beginning of 2007, the Democratic National Committee has released 102 direct attacks on Mitt Romney. Rudy Giuliani has warranted 78; John McCain 68; Fred Thompson 21.<strong> Mike Huckabee? Four.<\/strong> The most recent of these landed back in March. GOP voters may not have examined Mr. Huckabee&#8217;s record, but the left has&#8211;and they love what they see. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The optimist and idealist in me wants to believe that the Media are just acting like Lori Sturdevant; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/archives\/007600.html\">lifting up the Republicans who act the most like Democrats<\/a> (only to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/archives\/008002.html\">cut them down<\/a> without mercy the moment they turn into actual Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>The cynic in me counters; would the media be pushing a Republican they couldn&#8217;t turn around and destroy?<\/p>\n<p>Elder:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Democrats love the smell of Huckabee&#8217;s ethical lapses in the past. It smells like victory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Don&#8217;t buy it, Republicans. The media is setting Huckabee &#8211; and swing voters &#8211; for a big, fat, Hillary slapshot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fraters notes a piece by Kim Strassel that sums up my big problem with Huckabee (emphasis added by me): Since the beginning of 2007, the Democratic National Committee has released 102 direct attacks on Mitt Romney. Rudy Giuliani has warranted 78; John McCain 68; Fred Thompson 21. Mike Huckabee? Four. The most recent of these [&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-1817","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\/1817","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=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}