{"id":8075,"date":"2011-05-06T11:55:50","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T18:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=8075"},"modified":"2011-05-06T12:08:47","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T19:08:47","slug":"republicans-debate-in-south-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2011\/05\/06\/republicans-debate-in-south-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans debate in South Carolina.  If a tree fell in the forest &#8211;???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect that if the Republican debate of yesterday had been held at some other time, it would have swirled and focused a bit more on this line of argument:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8076\" title=\"obamaimagejoker\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/obamaimagejoker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As it were, they were stuck hemming and hawing a bit at Obama in relation to Osama.\u00c2\u00a0 Not that that&#8217;s the be all and done all&#8211; but from an accumulation of 270 electoral votes the American electorate past the ringer of a smaller electorate of delegation accumulation &#8212; the gut doesn&#8217;t figure that well.\u00c2\u00a0 Though, the backlash for the Obama&#8217;s Photo Op uses will grow and creep into the body politick &#8212; so they have that going for them.<\/p>\n<p>The domestic issue and scary Joker fell down sometime in the debate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/06\/us\/politics\/06repubs.html?ref=politics\">A question about some coverage of the big debate, though&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>While candidates in presidential debates often need no introduction, the  participants who filed onto the stage at the Peace Center for the  Performing Arts offered an exception to that rule. There were two former  governors, a member of Congress, a former senator and the former chief  executive of a chain of pizza restaurants \u00e2\u20ac\u201d all of whom round out the  lower rung of an unsettled Republican field.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fine.\u00c2\u00a0 And&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Tim Pawlenty,  a former governor of Minnesota who was among the best-known of the  candidates on hand, dropped bits of his own biography into many of his  answers in an effort to introduce himself to voters beyond the normal  collection of early-voting states.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tim Pawlenty is cited as the best known of the five.\u00c2\u00a0 If I had to rank them by name recognition, I think I would go with Ron Paul at number one, Rick Santorum at number two, and then&#8230; ?<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect that if the Republican debate of yesterday had been held at some other time, it would have swirled and focused a bit more on this line of argument: As it were, they were stuck hemming and hawing a bit at Obama in relation to Osama.\u00c2\u00a0 Not that that&#8217;s the be all and done [&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-8075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075","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=8075"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8085,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075\/revisions\/8085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}