{"id":1821,"date":"2007-12-26T05:27:52","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T10:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1821"},"modified":"2007-12-26T05:27:52","modified_gmt":"2007-12-26T10:27:52","slug":"grrrrrrrr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1821","title":{"rendered":"Grrrrrrrr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve said it before; part of me <em>wants <\/em>to be able to support John McCain.<\/p>\n<p>In many, many ways, he&#8217;s the best conservative of the bunch.\u00a0 And, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.captainsquartersblog.com\/mt\/archives\/016408.php\">Ed notes<\/a> (in re a poll that shows him with the lowest negatives among the GOP field):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>John McCain may get the best bump from this poll. People wonder whether he could win a Republican primary, but he has the lowest opposition numbers in both the general population and the unaffiliated population. His -6% in the latter group makes him the most electable among the front-runners of both parties. In a race where no one has captured the passion of the electorate, it could be enough of an edge for McCain to make the electability argument his own.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And, I suspect, he could fix that whole &#8220;nomination&#8221; thing in three not-simple-at-all steps:\u00a0 repudiating the McCain-Feingold laws, getting religion on immigration, and making some kind of amend or another on the whole Gang of Fourteen thing.<\/p>\n<p>Even two out of three would go a long way.<\/p>\n<p>I <em>want <\/em>to support McCain, in many ways, sooooo badly.\u00a0 And yet those three things are killers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve said it before; part of me wants to be able to support John McCain. In many, many ways, he&#8217;s the best conservative of the bunch.\u00a0 And, as Ed notes (in re a poll that shows him with the lowest negatives among the GOP field): John McCain may get the best bump from this poll. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-convention-08","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821","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=1821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}