{"id":2763,"date":"2008-01-31T13:48:07","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T20:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/01\/31\/a-subtle-mccain-gaffe\/"},"modified":"2008-01-31T13:48:07","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T20:48:07","slug":"a-subtle-mccain-gaffe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/01\/31\/a-subtle-mccain-gaffe\/","title":{"rendered":"a subtle McCain gaffe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the Republican primary debate last night, Mitt Romney attacked John McCain&#8217;s &#8220;Conservative Credentials&#8221; by charging that nobody who gets the New York Times endorsement can really be that conservative.\u00c2\u00a0 The New York Times endorsement was largely a huge slap at Rudy Giuliani, with a decision to line up behind McCain due to his anti-torture stand &#8212; as opposed to Romney&#8217;s line that he would like to &#8220;Double&#8221; Guantanamo.<\/p>\n<p>I do not know where a Conservative should head in choosing between Mitt Romney and John McCain, and won&#8217;t try to parse out a good position.\u00c2\u00a0 But I did\u00c2\u00a0run another slap against John Mcain&#8217;s &#8220;Conservative Credentials&#8221; in the news weekly which recently had a cover feature on John McCain.\u00c2\u00a0 (I cannot always tell the three apart, particularly two of them.\u00c2\u00a0 I think it was Newsweek.\u00c2\u00a0 It might have been Time.)\u00c2\u00a0 According to a slight aside feature on the nature of the McCain campaign bus, the television is always turned to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>either ESPN or MSNBC.<\/p>\n<p>MSNBC?\u00c2\u00a0 Home of Chris Matthews (worked in the Carter administration, and in the right wing view of things where we have an odd &#8220;either&#8221;\/&#8221;or&#8221; positioning, a big fat LIBERAL), and the down-right Communist Keith Olbermann.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone knows what channel it should be turned on for the sake of the Republican primary voter, and the true-red Conservative.\u00c2\u00a0 Where the heck is the Fox News?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Republican primary debate last night, Mitt Romney attacked John McCain&#8217;s &#8220;Conservative Credentials&#8221; by charging that nobody who gets the New York Times endorsement can really be that conservative.\u00c2\u00a0 The New York Times endorsement was largely a huge slap at Rudy Giuliani, with a decision to line up behind McCain due to his anti-torture [&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-2763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763","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=2763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}