{"id":55904,"date":"2015-10-29T12:09:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T17:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55904"},"modified":"2015-10-29T12:38:20","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T17:38:20","slug":"debateable-impressions-you-talkin-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55904","title":{"rendered":"Debateable Impressions:  You Talkin&#8217; To Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up next: \u00a0Chris Christie.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What the conservative pundocracy says<\/strong>: \u00a0Solid performance &#8211; but not enough to vault him onto the short list.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What I say<\/strong>: \u00a0By all rights, Christie shouldn&#8217;t have gotten this far. \u00a0He&#8217;s not the darling of the establishment, and conservatives fear him because he&#8217;s a &#8220;northeast&#8221; conservative; strong on business and security, adequate on entitlement and fiscal policy (and hampered by both a Democrat power stranglehold and a fairly inept New Jersey GOP), weak on civil liberties. \u00a0 Heck &#8211;\u00a0<em>I\u00a0<\/em>go back and forth on Christie.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verdict<\/strong>: \u00a0I think the party needs him on the short list, just to keep the short-listers on their toes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up next: \u00a0Chris Christie. What the conservative pundocracy says: \u00a0Solid performance &#8211; but not enough to vault him onto the short list. What I say: \u00a0By all rights, Christie shouldn&#8217;t have gotten this far. \u00a0He&#8217;s not the darling of the establishment, and conservatives fear him because he&#8217;s a &#8220;northeast&#8221; conservative; strong on business and security, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55904","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\/55904","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=55904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55916,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55904\/revisions\/55916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}