{"id":3582,"date":"2008-11-03T13:00:38","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T18:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3582"},"modified":"2008-11-03T13:00:38","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T18:00:38","slug":"democrats-disturbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3582","title":{"rendered":"Democrats, Disturbed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, I appeared on Marty Owings&#8217; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/radiofreenation.blogspot.com\/\">Radio Free Nation<\/a>&#8220;, a Blogtalkradio show on which I&#8217;m generally the sole conservative voice.<\/p>\n<p>After listening to a steady cavalcade of callers who were already revelling in an Obama victory, I had to ask (the victim in this case was an African American fellow from Detroit) &#8211; &#8220;So let&#8217;s say, hypothetically, that McCain wins.\u00a0 What do you do?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He ain&#8217;t gonna win&#8221;, the caller exclaimed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But, hypothetically, <em>what if<\/em> he wins?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then I&#8217;ll move to Canada&#8221;, the guy exclaimed without skipping a beat.<\/p>\n<p>So what about the rest of you libs?\u00a0 What are <em>you <\/em>going to do if Mac does manage to pull this thing off?<\/p>\n<p>And &#8220;He&#8217;s not going to pull it off&#8221; is not acceptable as an answer; the entire premise of the question is based on the <em>hypothetical<\/em> issue of a McCain victory, whether you find it plausible or not.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s hear it, libs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, I appeared on Marty Owings&#8217; &#8220;Radio Free Nation&#8220;, a Blogtalkradio show on which I&#8217;m generally the sole conservative voice. After listening to a steady cavalcade of callers who were already revelling in an Obama victory, I had to ask (the victim in this case was an African American fellow from Detroit) &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3582","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=3582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}