{"id":2167,"date":"2008-02-25T07:03:54","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T12:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2167"},"modified":"2008-02-25T07:24:39","modified_gmt":"2008-02-25T12:24:39","slug":"circling-the-drain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2167","title":{"rendered":"Circling The Drain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing official, of course, but that&#8217;s what the Clinton campaign is doing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2008\/02\/20\/the-end-of-hillary\/\">Allahpundit<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>She\u2019s got a few weapons left \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/article\/71498?page_no=2\">brass knuckles<\/a> at tomorrow\u2019s debate, 527s taking off and <a href=\"http:\/\/marcambinder.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2008\/02\/proclinton_527_prepares_for_oh.php\">strafing the Messiah<\/a> in Texas and Ohio \u2014 but that won\u2019t roll back the advance. It\u2019s our dumb luck that we finally get the Clintons in an election where we can beat them \u2026 and they flame out in the primary against a superior candidate. Even in defeat, they end up making our lives harder.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Anyone want to offer any Hail-Mary optimism this morning or should we pause at last to exult in her failure, electoral consequences be damned?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Or as Slublog puts it:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/clintonstaked.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I do hope the Tics drag it out a <strike>bit <\/strike>lot longer, of course.Every time a Tic spends a dollar campaigning against a Tic, an angel gets his wings.<\/p>\n<blockquote \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing official, of course, but that&#8217;s what the Clinton campaign is doing. Allahpundit: She\u2019s got a few weapons left \u2014 brass knuckles at tomorrow\u2019s debate, 527s taking off and strafing the Messiah in Texas and Ohio \u2014 but that won\u2019t roll back the advance. It\u2019s our dumb luck that we finally get the Clintons in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167","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=2167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}