{"id":3691,"date":"2009-03-31T15:41:22","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T22:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=3691"},"modified":"2009-03-31T15:41:22","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T22:41:22","slug":"weekly-standards-search-for-the-republican-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/03\/31\/weekly-standards-search-for-the-republican-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Standard’s search for the Republican Comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Weekly Standard on the stands right now, and tucked one week back on the website, presents itself with the magazine’s quest to discover the start of the Republican Party Comeback.\u00c2\u00a0 We start with the Fred Barnes tedium hack-work of the week<\/a>, but I don’t recommend reading it because it is the Fred Barnes tedium hack-work of the week.\u00c2\u00a0 Obama is in trouble.\u00c2\u00a0 Or soon will be.\u00c2\u00a0 He can read the political tea-leaves.\u00c2\u00a0 Will this to happen, and sooner or later — it will happen.\u00c2\u00a0 Or so seems to think Fred Barnes on a weekly standard.<\/p>\n

More pertinent, this article<\/a> poses the question:\u00c2\u00a0 A GOP Comeback — Will it start with New Jersey’s Chris Christie?<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t know.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s months away.\u00c2\u00a0 Why ask that question when you can ask the question about the New York Congressional District’s special election<\/a>?\u00c2\u00a0 Will the AIG Scandal bring the Republican to victory in this longtime Republican district, vacated by a Democrat made into a Senator, carried narrowly by Bush in 2004 and Obama in 2008?\u00c2\u00a0 Wouldn’t it be the “start” of a “Republican Comeback” if the GOP wins this seat — in an hour as I type this?\u00c2\u00a0 Isn’t that the implication of the article?\u00c2\u00a0 And if the answer to that question is “yes”, doesn’t that conflict with the other article about the GOP Comeback?<\/p>\n

The answer to the question of whether the AIG Scandal will bring the Republican to victory appears to be “no”.\u00c2\u00a0 The answer to the question of whether a Republican victory there presents itself as a sign of anything is, really, no.\u00c2\u00a0 The answer to the question about New Jersey is something along the line of — it’s a Democratic state with a corrupt political culture that suggests a Republican victory sometime — yet, that’s been the feeling for the past half a dozen political cycles and yet — .\u00c2\u00a0 So… no, in any case.<\/p>\n

But I guess these are the questions that animate a partisan political magazine during its out years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Weekly Standard on the stands right now, and tucked one week back on the website, presents itself with the magazine’s quest to discover the start of the Republican Party Comeback.\u00c2\u00a0 We start with the Fred Barnes tedium hack-work of the week, but I don’t recommend reading it because it is the Fred Barnes tedium […]<\/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-3691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691","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=3691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3692,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691\/revisions\/3692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}