{"id":10801,"date":"2012-01-19T14:53:11","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T20:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=10801"},"modified":"2012-01-19T14:53:11","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T20:53:11","slug":"overlooked-gop-candidate-selection-criterion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/19\/overlooked-gop-candidate-selection-criterion\/","title":{"rendered":"Overlooked GOP Candidate Selection Criterion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ladies and gentlemen, as the GOP presidential primary and caucus process continues to its conclusion next year and a candidate to challenge Resident Barack Obama in 2012, we&#8217;ve been fed a steady diet from the campaigns and the media of white papers, plans with varying numbers of bullet points, and doodyhead\/am-not claims.  We have focused on issues, and by issues, I mean the aforementioned &#8220;doodyhead&#8221; considerations, but we have failed to take one important question into account:<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\">Which candidate will make the best giant puppets and effigies for 8 years of protests?<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/romney.jpg\" height=\"200\" alt=\"Mitt Romney: How will he look in effigy?\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gingrich.jpg\" height=\"200\" alt=\"Newt Gingrich would make an excellent giant puppet\"><\/p>\n<p>I have to go with <strong>Newt Gingrich<\/strong> on this one.  Not only is he more easily caricaturable, but there are many, many editorial cartoon artists ready to come out of retirement to lend their expertise to criticizing him.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t want to challenge the protestors too much, do you?  They only have masters&#8217; degrees in puppetry and papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ladies and gentlemen, as the GOP presidential primary and caucus process continues to its conclusion next year and a candidate to challenge Resident Barack Obama in 2012, we&#8217;ve been fed a steady diet from the campaigns and the media of white papers, plans with varying numbers of bullet points, and doodyhead\/am-not claims. We have focused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10803,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801\/revisions\/10803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}