{"id":3545,"date":"2008-10-28T05:46:43","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T10:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3545"},"modified":"2008-10-27T18:58:40","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T23:58:40","slug":"well-blow-me-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3545","title":{"rendered":"Well, Blow Me Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being a conservative, I don&#8217;t generally much care about celebrities&#8217; political leanings (and was embarassed by the slavish devotion to pop culture and the celebrity party circuit that seemed to preoccupy the local Sorosphere in the weeks leading up to the Republican National Convention in Saint Paul).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/cbs2chicago.com\/slideshows\/Conservative.Celebrities.republican.20.828253.html\">this bit on &#8220;right-leaning celebs&#8221;<\/a>, along with a few &#8220;no, duhs&#8221;, had a few surprises.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course, plenty were just plain obvious:\u00a0 Chuck Norris, Richard Petty, Trace Adkins, Tom Clancy,\u00a0Ahnold, Ben Stein, Tom Selleck and Elizabeth Hasselback? Pretty much public knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>A few others made some waves, largely for the act of &#8220;coming out&#8221;:\u00a0 John Voight, Angie Harmon and Stephen Baldwin.<\/p>\n<p>A few, I gotta confess &#8211; and remember, I&#8217;m a conservative, so I really don&#8217;t pay that much attention to the subject &#8211; surprised me:\u00a0 Bruce Willis, John Elway, Pat Sajak, Dennis Hopper, Rick Schroeder\u00a0and Robert Duvall?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And seeing the list, I&#8217;m starting to figure out why it took Susan Lucci so long to win that Daytime Emmy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Still, if only Mike Ditka <em>had <\/em>managed to run against a young Barack Obama for the Senate; he&#8217;s have won with 95% of the vote, he&#8217;d be president today, per-capita income would have doubled, and Franklin Raines would be doing push-ups and wind-sprints in Leavenworth.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a conservative, I don&#8217;t generally much care about celebrities&#8217; political leanings (and was embarassed by the slavish devotion to pop culture and the celebrity party circuit that seemed to preoccupy the local Sorosphere in the weeks leading up to the Republican National Convention in Saint Paul).\u00a0 But this bit on &#8220;right-leaning celebs&#8221;, along with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545","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=3545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}