{"id":42554,"date":"2014-03-20T12:58:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T17:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42554"},"modified":"2014-03-20T12:58:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T17:58:50","slug":"notes-from-my-short-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42554","title":{"rendered":"Notes From My Short List"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t endorse candidates – well, rarely, anyway – but my fantasy ticket for 2016 is Scott Walker and Rand Paul.\u00a0 Since neither is likely to settle for Veep, it’s probably fair to say that either of them (maybe with Susana Martinez for Veep) is my current front-runner.<\/p>\n

Why Walker?\u00a0 Look at Wisconsin.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Why Rand Paul?\u00a0\u00a0 Because he’s putting the GOP – and more importantly conservatism – into places where it’s not been seen in decades.\u00a0 And – the bleatings of too many establishment hamsters notwithstading – convincing people that conservative-libertarianism is the right answer to this nation’s problemsisthe future of conservatism, and especially the GOP, if there’s going to be a future at all.<\/p>\n

And Paul gets this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Historically, the Republican Party has been just what the public thinks it is, largely a bunch of risk-averse white men who are totally clueless at public relations, even though they are on the right (correct) side of almost every issue. Meanwhile, the liberal Democrats haven\u2019t had a decent rational argument about anything for years, if they ever did. They ream young people, blacks and virtually every other \u201cinterest group\u201dthat supports them with their policies and they still win most national elections. What a disgraceful group of losers that makes the Republicans…Rand Paul is smart enough to realize this and actually goes out and does things about it…The country is changing. Whole new groups are ripe for the picking, most obviously the young who are being so completely raked over by the Obama administration via Obamacare and the rest of the entitlements so many of them know they will never see. They were ready to applaud at Berkeley<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The whole thing is worth a read.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And, if you’re a GOP activist, a little bit of internalizing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t endorse candidates – well, rarely, anyway – but my fantasy ticket for 2016 is Scott Walker and Rand Paul.\u00a0 Since neither is likely to settle for Veep, it’s probably fair to say that either of them (maybe with Susana Martinez for Veep) is my current front-runner. Why Walker?\u00a0 Look at Wisconsin.\u00a0 Why Rand […]<\/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-42554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42554","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=42554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42556,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42554\/revisions\/42556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}