{"id":215,"date":"2007-06-29T20:33:39","date_gmt":"2007-06-30T01:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=215"},"modified":"2007-06-29T20:33:39","modified_gmt":"2007-06-30T01:33:39","slug":"no-there-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"No there there"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/homepage\/story\/17514.html\">Fred Thompson underwhelms them in New Hampshire<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>In 2004 Wes Clark was a threat to everyone, including Bush, before he got in the race. Once he did, he faded. Clark actually had substance and would probably have been a capable president. Thompson is a lightweight, who did nothing as a Senator, and would be a horrible president. The country can&#8217;t afford 8 years of play acting. Oops, I forgot, that&#8217;s all we&#8217;ll get from any of them, assuming we don&#8217;t get a dictatorship (Looking at you, Rudy).<\/p>\n<p>My wife says it will be Romney, and I&#8217;m beginning to agree. It&#8217;s hard to believe someone so obviously calculating (<a href=\"www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/us\/AP-On-the-2008-Trail.html\">and an animal abuser to boot<\/a> ) can win, but in the toilet bowl that is the GOP, you know what floats to the top. Romney is saying all the right things, even though it&#8217;s fairly clear that if he believes anything he&#8217;s saying it&#8217;s only by chance. He&#8217;s got the money too. If he wins he&#8217;ll be a formidable candidate, since the press has already proven it is ready to give him a free pass. According to them, <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/06\/19\/cnns-alina-cho-on-mitt-romney\/\">he even smells good<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Thompson underwhelms them in New Hampshire. In 2004 Wes Clark was a threat to everyone, including Bush, before he got in the race. Once he did, he faded. Clark actually had substance and would probably have been a capable president. Thompson is a lightweight, who did nothing as a Senator, and would be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presidential-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}