{"id":50902,"date":"2015-01-26T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T18:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=50902"},"modified":"2015-01-24T15:08:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T21:08:42","slug":"hope-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=50902","title":{"rendered":"Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Generally, I keep my powder dry as we ramp up to big endorsement challenges. \u00a0And this year might be as good a year as any to keep mum.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m not. \u00a0Among a small short-list of GOP candidates I&#8217;d like to see running for the Presidency &#8211; Bobby Jindal, John Kasich, maybe Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio &#8211; the top of my list is Scott Walker. \u00a0I&#8217;m a Walker guy, and I have been since he survived his recall.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest concern people have had so far about Walker is that &#8220;he&#8217;s not charismatic enough&#8221; &#8211; yet another thing that has made me long for the days before television screwed up American politics.<\/p>\n<p>But there is <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/230636-walker-shows-fire-in-iowa\">ground for hope that worries about Walker&#8217;s charisma may be exaggerated<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generally, I keep my powder dry as we ramp up to big endorsement challenges. \u00a0And this year might be as good a year as any to keep mum. But I&#8217;m not. \u00a0Among a small short-list of GOP candidates I&#8217;d like to see running for the Presidency &#8211; Bobby Jindal, John Kasich, maybe Ted Cruz or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,16,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-16","category-conservatism","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50902","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=50902"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50904,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50902\/revisions\/50904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}