{"id":5058,"date":"2009-07-09T08:15:59","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T13:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5058"},"modified":"2009-07-09T08:15:59","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T13:15:59","slug":"the-suspense-was-killing-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5058","title":{"rendered":"The Suspense Was Killing Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Headline on USN&#8217;nWR: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/articles\/news\/politics\/2009\/07\/08\/sanford-affair-will-hurt-republicans-in-the-south-democratic-strategists-say.html\">Sanford Affair Will Hurt Republicans in the South, Democratic Strategists Say<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Democratic strategists say the much-publicized moral lapses of <a class=\"kLink\" id=\"KonaLink0\" onmouseover=\"adlinkMouseOver(event,this,0);\" style=\"position: static; text-decoration: underline! important\" onclick=\"adlinkMouseClick(event,this,0);\" onmouseout=\"adlinkMouseOut(event,this,0);\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/articles\/news\/politics\/2009\/07\/08\/sanford-affair-will-hurt-republicans-in-the-south-democratic-strategists-say.html#\" target=\"_new\"><font style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #005497! important; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; position: static\" color=\"#005497\"><span class=\"kLink\" style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #005497! important; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; position: relative\">Republican<\/span><\/font><\/a> Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina will damage the GOP brand in the South.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whew.\u00a0 I&#8217;d wondered if <em>Democratic strategists <\/em>were going to spin this to show the affair &#8211; also &#8220;anything&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0was going to <em>help <\/em>the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>In related news:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dean Barkley Thinks Sanford Affair Will Help &#8220;Independence&#8221; Party In MN<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Socialist Workers Party Reps Believe Sanford Slip Will Bolster Trotskyites<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>American Nazi Party Believes Sanford Affair Implicates Jews<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks, USN&#8217;nWR.\u00a0 Now that you&#8217;ve gone online, I&#8217;m glad to see your editorial talent has gurgled down toward <em>Minnesota &#8220;Progressive&#8221; Project <\/em>level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Headline on USN&#8217;nWR: Sanford Affair Will Hurt Republicans in the South, Democratic Strategists Say. Democratic strategists say the much-publicized moral lapses of Republican Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina will damage the GOP brand in the South.\u00a0 Whew.\u00a0 I&#8217;d wondered if Democratic strategists were going to spin this to show the affair &#8211; also &#8220;anything&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5058","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=5058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}