As i noted earlier, I only watched perhaps 90 minutes of last night’s cage match.<\/p>\n
I’m going to give my impressions anyway \u00a0– one candidate at a time. \u00a0I’m going to start with Ted Cruz.<\/p>\n
What the conservative pundocracy says<\/strong>: \u00a0It was the performance he needed to stay on the short list.<\/p>\n What I say<\/strong>: \u00a0And how. \u00a0His jeremiad against the media was a watershed, both within the debate and (I can dream), within the party; it’s restarted the discussion about getting the GOP out of the major-media “debate” \/ reality show racket. \u00a0If he serves no other purposes in this campaign, last night’s contribution could turn out to be a fantastic thing.<\/p>\n Verdict<\/strong>: \u00a0Excellent.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As i noted earlier, I only watched perhaps 90 minutes of last night’s cage match. I’m going to give my impressions anyway \u00a0– one candidate at a time. \u00a0I’m going to start with Ted Cruz. What the conservative pundocracy says: \u00a0It was the performance he needed to stay on the short list. What I say: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-16","category-media","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55901","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=55901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55921,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55901\/revisions\/55921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}