{"id":79480,"date":"2021-09-14T07:12:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T12:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79480"},"modified":"2021-09-14T07:12:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T12:12:02","slug":"at-stake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79480","title":{"rendered":"At Stake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> If you&#8217;re voting in California today?   Your mission is clear.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gavin Newsom is everything that&#8217;s wrong with modern progressivism (although far from alone at that).  He&#8217; part of an &#8220;elite&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/recall-save-california-newsom-elites-destroy-state-victor-davis-hanson\">that has destroyed one of history&#8217;s great success stories<\/a>, one of America&#8217;s onetime great accomplishments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Larry Elder may not have all the answers, and given that even if he manages to swim upstream past the Democrat fraud machine he&#8217;ll still be facing a California State Assembly on his own.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is there a better guy for the job than Elder?   Some certainly wish it so:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If the California GOP were a strong &amp; serious party it would&#39;ve worked to clear field of the rabble &amp; rabble-rousers and put all its weight behind a competent &amp; conventional candidate like Faulconer. Would&#39;ve kept Newsom the issue and laid foundation for rebuilding GOP.<\/p>&mdash; Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonahDispatch\/status\/1437748034465579010?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 14, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As Donald Rumsfeld said, &#8220;You don&#8217;t go to war with the army you want.  You go with the army you have&#8221;.   The California GOP may be rebounding, but at the state level they&#8217;ve got nothing.  Nationally?  This next three years is going to be interesting in all the wrong ways, party-wise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A wish and $3 will get you a cup of Starbucks.  $5.50 in California. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re voting in California today? Your mission is clear. Gavin Newsom is everything that&#8217;s wrong with modern progressivism (although far from alone at that). He&#8217; part of an &#8220;elite&#8221; that has destroyed one of history&#8217;s great success stories, one of America&#8217;s onetime great accomplishments. Larry Elder may not have all the answers, and given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79480","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=79480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79489,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79480\/revisions\/79489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}