{"id":1938,"date":"2008-01-10T05:02:15","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T10:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1938"},"modified":"2008-01-10T05:02:15","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T10:02:15","slug":"the-short-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1938","title":{"rendered":"The Short List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not the only whom events are dragging into near-existential political conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Kouba <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthvmachine.com\/?p=5401\">writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With Duncan Hunter out of the race, it surprises me to no end, given that a few months ago I wouldn\u2019t have given him the time of day, I am all but prepared to declare myself a McCain supporter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not quite there yet; I&#8217;m still sorting out who&#8217;s on the short list.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reagan said if you agree with someone on 80% of issues, give him the benefit of the doubt on the other 20 and support him.\u00a0 Giuliani comes in somewhere between 65% and 85%, depending on my mood.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>So, as a matter of fact, does McCain.\u00a0 Thorley&#8217;s excellent defense aside (we <em>did<\/em> forgive Bush for <em>signing<\/em> McCain-Feingold; I respond that now &#8211; rather than after the election &#8211; is the time to register that displeasure, and so I shall), McCain-Feingold is a problem, and I plan on raising it until such a time as JMac is the candidate, in the unlikely hope he repudiates it.<\/li>\n<li>Do I dock points because someone seems <em>too <\/em>slick, smooth and polished?\u00a0 If not, Romney looks good.\u00a0 But is he a wartime leader?\u00a0 That&#8217;s the $64,000 question.<\/li>\n<li>Fred?\u00a0 Fred?\u00a0 Any ol&#8217; time, here.<\/li>\n<li>The Hucker has one advantage; he&#8217;d be better than any Democrat.\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s not enough to get him elected, of course.\u00a0 He&#8217;s got all of Bush&#8217;s weak spots ($pending) and none of his strengths.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the other hand, I do love a horse race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not the only whom events are dragging into near-existential political conflict. Kouba writes: With Duncan Hunter out of the race, it surprises me to no end, given that a few months ago I wouldn\u2019t have given him the time of day, I am all but prepared to declare myself a McCain supporter. I&#8217;m not [&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-1938","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\/1938","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=1938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}