{"id":11359,"date":"2010-06-11T08:12:14","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T13:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11359"},"modified":"2010-07-07T19:46:21","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T00:46:21","slug":"antisocial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11359","title":{"rendered":"Antisocial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Port at <em>Say Anything<\/em> on <a href=\"http:\/\/sayanythingblog.com\/entry\/possible-republican-presidential-candidate-calls-for-truce-on-social-issues-until-fiscal-issues-addressed\/\">Mitch Daniels&#8217; soft-footing social issues<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels is pro-life and a Christian but wants focus on fiscal rather than <span id=\"IL_AD2\" class=\"IL_AD\">social issues<\/span> given the state of the nation\u2019s economy and budget.<\/p>\n<p>Does <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2010\/06\/09\/mitch-daniels-the-taciturn-conservative-star-ascending\/\">this<\/a> kill off his hopes for a candidacy in 2012?<\/p>\n<p><em>Beyond <span id=\"IL_AD1\" class=\"IL_AD\">the debt<\/span> and <span id=\"IL_AD3\" class=\"IL_AD\">the deficit<\/span>, in Daniels\u2019s telling, all other issues fade to comparative insignificance. He\u2019s an agnostic on the science of global warming but says his views don\u2019t matter. \u201cI don\u2019t know if the CO2 zealots are right,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I don\u2019t care, because we can\u2019t afford to do what they want to do. Unless you want to go broke, in which case the world isn\u2019t going to be any greener. Poor nations are never green.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And then, he says, the next president, whoever he is, \u201cwould have to call a truce on the so-called social issues. We\u2019re going to just have to agree to get along for a little while,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think that&#8217;s the big lesson of the Tea Party so far, not to mention of the Reagan administration:\u00a0 if you don&#8217;t conquer government&#8217;s addictions to spending and taxes, then we&#8217;re screwed on the social issues anyway &#8211; and as luck&#8217;d have it, most candidates that are conservative on spending and taxes are on the right side of the social issues anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Port at Say Anything on Mitch Daniels&#8217; soft-footing social issues: Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels is pro-life and a Christian but wants focus on fiscal rather than social issues given the state of the nation\u2019s economy and budget. Does this kill off his hopes for a candidacy in 2012? Beyond the debt and the deficit, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11359"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11830,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11359\/revisions\/11830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}