{"id":15598,"date":"2016-07-05T17:17:22","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T00:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=15598"},"modified":"2016-07-05T17:17:22","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T00:17:22","slug":"surprised-palins-nowhere-on-the-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2016\/07\/05\/surprised-palins-nowhere-on-the-list\/","title":{"rendered":"surprised Palin&#8217;s nowhere on the list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay.\u00c2\u00a0 So here&#8217;s what&#8217;s making the rounds for Donald Trump&#8217;s vice presidential running mate&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.<br \/>\nNew Jersey Governor Chris Christie.<br \/>\nTennessee Senator Bob Corker.<br \/>\nIndiana Governor Mike Pence.<br \/>\nAlabama Senator Jeff Sessions.<\/p>\n<p>I like that last one, because he&#8217;s been roughly the biggest cheer-leader among actual Republican sitting senators.\u00c2\u00a0 I suppose the same can be said of Chris Christie&#8211; ignoring the body language &#8212; though the case is something of the matter that Jeff Session&#8217;s politics lie roughly where you&#8217;d expect a Republican from Alabama to lie.\u00c2\u00a0 On the others:\u00c2\u00a0 Bob Corker appears to want out of the Senate, so it looks like he tested the waters by praising a Trump foreign policy speech.\u00c2\u00a0 And Mike Pence is odd, because Ted Cruz tried to align himself with Pence and Indiana and attack Trump regarding trans-gendered bathroom politics.<\/p>\n<p>That leaves us with Newt Gingrich, who&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Okay.\u00c2\u00a0 Trump \/ Gingrich 2016?\u00c2\u00a0 Now you&#8217;re just trolling us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay.\u00c2\u00a0 So here&#8217;s what&#8217;s making the rounds for Donald Trump&#8217;s vice presidential running mate&#8230; Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. Tennessee Senator Bob Corker. Indiana Governor Mike Pence. Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions. I like that last one, because he&#8217;s been roughly the biggest cheer-leader among actual Republican sitting senators.\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15599,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15598\/revisions\/15599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}