{"id":18943,"date":"2011-03-22T06:23:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T12:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18943"},"modified":"2011-03-22T06:28:26","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T12:28:26","slug":"pawlenty-f-yeah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18943","title":{"rendered":"Pawlenty. F*** Yeah!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Pawlenty hits all the right notes in the video announcing his &#8220;exploratory committee&#8221;.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s not <em>the<\/em> perfect conservative.  We know this.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"450\" height=\"283\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-B8BKJV6Xyg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But compared to the rest of the field?  We could &#8211; and probably would &#8211; do worse.<br \/>\nSome lefties titter that he&#8217;s &#8220;boring&#8221;.  After two years of &#8220;exciting&#8221; star power, I think a little &#8220;boring&#8221; competence sounds like a really really good trait.<\/p>\n<p>(And I don&#8217;t get &#8220;boring&#8221; from Pawlenty.  He&#8217;s affable, low-key, and pretty much the guy next door.  He&#8217;s also politically about as sharp as they come.  How sharp?  He&#8217;s a Republican from Minnesota, and yet he&#8217;s on the short list for President.  Don&#8217;t get me wrong; the right, Bachmann and Gingrich, will need to keep him honest to the base.  I&#8217;m fine with that too).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Pawlenty hits all the right notes in the video announcing his &#8220;exploratory committee&#8221;. He&#8217;s not the perfect conservative. We know this. But compared to the rest of the field? We could &#8211; and probably would &#8211; do worse. Some lefties titter that he&#8217;s &#8220;boring&#8221;. After two years of &#8220;exciting&#8221; star power, I think a [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18943","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=18943"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18947,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18943\/revisions\/18947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}