{"id":44897,"date":"2014-06-16T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=44897"},"modified":"2014-06-15T12:56:36","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T17:56:36","slug":"fortune-favors-the-bold-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=44897","title":{"rendered":"Fortune Favors The Bold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rand Paul, speaking in Iowa, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/06\/rand-paul-moderates-gop-future-107862.html\">nailed a few key points the GOP needs to remember<\/a>, nationally and here in Minnesota:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere are people who say we need to be more moderate,\u201d he said. \u201cI couldn\u2019t disagree more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the core of our message: we can be even more bold,\u201d he added. \u201cWhen Ronald Reagan won a landslide, he ran unabashedly \u2026 that\u2019s what we need \u2026 It isn\u2019t about being tepid.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s &#8220;moderation&#8221; &#8211; and its idiot cousin, compromise with Big Left &#8211; that have left the nation in the mess it&#8217;s in.<\/p>\n<p>The American people &#8211; the ones that can be reached, anyway &#8211; know this, whether they can state it in as many words or not.<\/p>\n<p>Go conservative\/libertarian, or go home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rand Paul, speaking in Iowa, nailed a few key points the GOP needs to remember, nationally and here in Minnesota: \u201cThere are people who say we need to be more moderate,\u201d he said. \u201cI couldn\u2019t disagree more.\u201d \u201cI think the core of our message: we can be even more bold,\u201d he added. \u201cWhen Ronald Reagan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,16,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-14","category-conservatism","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44897","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=44897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44899,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44897\/revisions\/44899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}