{"id":2781,"date":"2008-02-22T16:21:57","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T23:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/02\/22\/that-there-reformer\/"},"modified":"2008-02-23T17:40:33","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T00:40:33","slug":"that-there-reformer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/02\/22\/that-there-reformer\/","title":{"rendered":"that there reformer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t gain &#8220;Conservative Credentials&#8221; until The New York Times writes an unfavorable piece about you.  Thus, McCain may well be taking a long sigh of relief, if just for the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Stripping out the sex aspects, I suppose you might go back to that idea of &#8220;Attacking His Strength&#8221;.  The one thing about this supposed strength, chastized in the wake of his role in the Keating Six* scandal John McCain became MR. UNBOUGHT AND UNBOSSED, Mr. SUPER-REFORMER, I do not fully know if everyone in the bottom of their heart, when they sit still long enough, believes such a thing.  Maybe as politicians go, grading on a curve &#8212; hence his Independent Credentials &#8212; .<\/p>\n<p>But there is a way we are going to have to try to get a good handle on the man, the politician, the waving history, circa 2000 through 2004.  I suspect you are left cutting his career into four distinct cuts, maybe?<\/p>\n<p>* Correction: Keating Five.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t gain &#8220;Conservative Credentials&#8221; until The New York Times writes an unfavorable piece about you. Thus, McCain may well be taking a long sigh of relief, if just for the moment. Stripping out the sex aspects, I suppose you might go back to that idea of &#8220;Attacking His Strength&#8221;. The one thing about this [&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-2781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781","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=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}