{"id":638,"date":"2008-01-15T21:32:39","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T02:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=638"},"modified":"2008-01-15T21:32:39","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T02:32:39","slug":"willard-winning-in-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=638","title":{"rendered":"Willard winning in Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I write this, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/15\/us\/politics\/15cnd-campaign.html?ex=1358139600&#038;en=8ac33f5463ac521c&#038;ei=5088&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss\">Willard Romney is ahead in the Michigan primary<\/a>, a consummation devoutly to be wished. Romney is best described by a word that rhymes with &#8220;prick&#8221;. Nonetheless he has my endorsement for the Michigan primary. In South Carolina my man is the Huckster. Hell, I&#8217;m even hoping Giuliani will win a race or two. Keep the pot boiling. We need an openly bleeding candidate to come out of this process.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my fantasy. Huckabee gets to the convention with a plurality of delegates, say 40%. The corporate wing of the party puts its foot down and mandates that the party coalesce behind a corporatist. The party, of course, obeys, and the evangelicals stay home.<\/p>\n<p>I hasten to add that this scenario is not probable, but it is possible. Wouldn&#8217;t it be loverly?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I write this, Willard Romney is ahead in the Michigan primary, a consummation devoutly to be wished. Romney is best described by a word that rhymes with &#8220;prick&#8221;. Nonetheless he has my endorsement for the Michigan primary. In South Carolina my man is the Huckster. Hell, I&#8217;m even hoping Giuliani will win a race [&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-638","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\/638","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=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}