{"id":17100,"date":"2018-02-17T16:51:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T23:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=17100"},"modified":"2018-02-17T16:51:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T23:51:32","slug":"oh-why-cant-he-be-more-like-bob-dole-and-just-stump-for-pepsi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2018\/02\/17\/oh-why-cant-he-be-more-like-bob-dole-and-just-stump-for-pepsi\/","title":{"rendered":"oh, why can&#8217;t he be more like Bob Dole and just stump for Pepsi?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So.\u00c2\u00a0 Mitt Romney.\u00c2\u00a0 Running, and a shoo in at that, for a seat in Utah.\u00c2\u00a0 To provide a Utah conservatism for the Republican Party &#8212; supplementing, I suppose, Mike Lee&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>There have been losing presidential candidates who took their spot in the Senate.\u00c2\u00a0 Goldwater.\u00c2\u00a0 Humphrey.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, they were senators before running for president.\u00c2\u00a0 Romney&#8217;s seems a new course.<\/p>\n<p>Skipping states to snag a seat is interesting.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, to the detractors who go to him saying &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you stay out in (mass)?&#8221;, he can always say, &#8220;Two words.\u00c2\u00a0 Henry.\u00c2\u00a0 Clay.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 That should shut up all cries of carpet-bagging!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So.\u00c2\u00a0 Mitt Romney.\u00c2\u00a0 Running, and a shoo in at that, for a seat in Utah.\u00c2\u00a0 To provide a Utah conservatism for the Republican Party &#8212; supplementing, I suppose, Mike Lee&#8217;s. There have been losing presidential candidates who took their spot in the Senate.\u00c2\u00a0 Goldwater.\u00c2\u00a0 Humphrey.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, they were senators before running for president.\u00c2\u00a0 Romney&#8217;s [&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-17100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17100","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=17100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17101,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17100\/revisions\/17101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}