{"id":66858,"date":"2018-05-18T05:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66858"},"modified":"2018-05-17T22:08:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T03:08:39","slug":"almost-coulda-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66858","title":{"rendered":"Almost Coulda Been"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>John McCain, dying, says <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/news\/386392-mccain-i-regret-picking-palin-as-my-vice-presidential-nominee\">he regrets picking Sarah Palin<\/a> as a running mate in his campaign against Barak Obama and Al Gore.<\/p>\n<p>He wishes he had picked pro-abortion Democrat Joe Lieberman to run as the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<p>This tells us all we need to know about John McCain\u2019s firm commitment to conservative principles \u2013 none \u2013 and why the Republican base absolutely insisted on a rock-solid Conservative on the ticket.\u00a0 Without her, people like me would have stayed home and McCain\/Lieberman would have received no electoral votes at all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And I for one was worried about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: John McCain, dying, says he regrets picking Sarah Palin as a running mate in his campaign against Barak Obama and Al Gore. He wishes he had picked pro-abortion Democrat Joe Lieberman to run as the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate. This tells us all we need to know about John McCain\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66858","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=66858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66859,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66858\/revisions\/66859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}