{"id":28176,"date":"2012-05-30T07:00:43","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28176"},"modified":"2012-05-29T11:46:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T16:46:46","slug":"revisit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28176","title":{"rendered":"Onward!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As of today, barring a major electoral cataclysm, Mitt Romney should get enough delegates from the Texas primary to clinch the nomination.<\/p>\n

Now, three months ago – back around caucus time – we had a lot of flags planted in a lot of beaches; “I’m for Newt, and if Mitt wins I’ll sit this thing out” and such.<\/p>\n

Which was fine, back then, when the goal was to push for your candidates. \u00a0You wanted them to win; that’s why you push for them. \u00a0And as a secondary goal, you do it to push other candidates in the desired direction (and for most of us, that direction is “right”).<\/p>\n

But today it’s all but official. \u00a0Romney’s going to be the nominee.<\/p>\n

So – has that changed your approach to the campaign?<\/p>\n

I don’t do “open thread” posts around here – but feel free to discuss amongst yourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As of today, barring a major electoral cataclysm, Mitt Romney should get enough delegates from the Texas primary to clinch the nomination. Now, three months ago – back around caucus time – we had a lot of flags planted in a lot of beaches; “I’m for Newt, and if Mitt wins I’ll sit this thing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28176","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=28176"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28190,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28176\/revisions\/28190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}