The rumor is buzzing that Romney “may have picked a running mate”.<\/p>\n
I personally expect that Romney, if he’s smart, will keep the media nipping at the bait for the next month, ’til the convention. \u00a0Or so I hope.<\/p>\n
Given a choice between Palwenty, Jindal, Portman or Rice, it’d be a tough call for me. \u00a0I’d be most excited with a Jindal pick, but I could be persuaded any of those directions.<\/p>\n
But one thing that does not <\/em>excite me is some of the chatter from a few Minnesota paleocons over the weekend, saying if Pawlenty were the pick they’d forget about voting for Mitt.<\/p>\n Word to the wise; if Obama wins re-election because Romney lost Minnesota by two votes, I’ll be sending you the bill for my Obamacare tax hike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The rumor is buzzing that Romney “may have picked a running mate”. I personally expect that Romney, if he’s smart, will keep the media nipping at the bait for the next month, ’til the convention. \u00a0Or so I hope. Given a choice between Palwenty, Jindal, Portman or Rice, it’d be a tough call for me. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29000","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=29000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29001,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29000\/revisions\/29001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}