{"id":1975,"date":"2008-01-16T11:30:27","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T16:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1975"},"modified":"2008-01-16T11:40:51","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T16:40:51","slug":"michelle-malkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1975","title":{"rendered":"On Principle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/\">Hearing this from Michelle Malkin<\/a>\u00a0might jolt a few people awake&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I need a man.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Luckily for Mr. Malkin, it&#8217;s just about politics.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s a dang fine point:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A man who can say \u201cNo.\u201d A man who rejects Big Nanny government. A man who thinks being president doesn\u2019t mean playing Santa Claus. A man who won\u2019t panic in the face of economic pain. A man who won\u2019t succumb to media-driven sob stories.<\/p>\n<p>A man who can look voters, the media, and the Chicken Littles in Congress in the eye and say the three words no one wants to hear in Washington: Suck. It. Up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Someone who embraces limited government and a doctrine of supporting prosperity rather than subsidizing failure, maybe?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I don\u2019t want to hear Republicans recycling the Blame Predatory Lenders rhetoric of Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and Jesse Jackson. Enough with the victim card. Borrowers are not all saints.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s my biggest worry about Romney&#8217;s victory in Michigan; the sound bites I&#8217;ve heard look like he got at least part of the win by triangulating toward the center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hearing this from Michelle Malkin\u00a0might jolt a few people awake&#8230;: I need a man. Luckily for Mr. Malkin, it&#8217;s just about politics.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s a dang fine point: A man who can say \u201cNo.\u201d A man who rejects Big Nanny government. A man who thinks being president doesn\u2019t mean playing Santa Claus. A man who [&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-1975","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\/1975","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=1975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}