{"id":90048,"date":"2025-12-08T07:15:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T13:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90048"},"modified":"2025-12-08T07:15:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T13:15:23","slug":"batting-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90048","title":{"rendered":"Batting Order"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When I played beer league softball, the coach would announce the batting line-up for every inning. “Smith at bat. Johnson on deck. Doakes in the hole.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right now Trump is at bat, but he’s not eligible to run for re-election. Who’s on deck? Who’s in the hole? MAGA Conservatives need to get their candidate lineup in order lest we get stuck running another milquetoast Romney or mad McCain against media darling Gavin Newsom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joe Doakes<\/p>\n

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That’s gonna be the problem. Whatever his faults and virtues, Trump is more a personality than a political movement. \u00a0The likes of\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who’s On Cleanup?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90048","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=90048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90049,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90048\/revisions\/90049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}