{"id":15009,"date":"2015-12-28T14:26:29","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T20:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=15009"},"modified":"2015-12-28T14:26:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T20:26:29","slug":"allahpundit-gets-it-two-weeks-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/28\/allahpundit-gets-it-two-weeks-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Allahpundit Gets It Two Weeks Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On December 14, I wondered <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/14\/donald-trump-the-mccaskill-manipulation-goes-national\/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump: The McCaskill Manipulation Goes National?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On December 28, Allahpundit wonders <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2015\/12\/28\/report-obama-to-start-speaking-out-against-trump-in-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">the same thing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If this sounds familiar, it\u2019s because Democrats used the same strategy to brilliant effect in the 2012 Senate race in Missouri. The GOP primary was jammed up with three candidates; Claire McCaskill, the Democratic incumbent, wanted to do something to help Todd Akin win, believing (correctly) that Akin would be the easiest of the three to beat in a general election. The solution: Start attacking Akin before the Republican primary, knowing that a big-name Democrat\u2019s official seal of disapproval would be a strong lure to Republican voters to consider Akin. Some of that is pure tribalism at work \u2014 Democrats are bad, therefore things they dislike must be good \u2014 and some of it is \u201cthey\u2019ll tell you who they fear\u201d reasoning at work. The problem is, sometimes they\u2019re not telling you who they fear when they attack. Sometimes they\u2019re telling you who they don\u2019t fear and hoping you\u2019ll fall for it. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know, this blog was a lot more political when I started out, but I&#8217;ve drifted away from it because, honestly, I&#8217;m not sure my insights add anything and I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m convincing anybody of anything.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not even getting my insights and moments of synthetic thought out into the wild before someone else comes up with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 14, I wondered Donald Trump: The McCaskill Manipulation Goes National? On December 28, Allahpundit wonders the same thing: If this sounds familiar, it\u2019s because Democrats used the same strategy to brilliant effect in the 2012 Senate race in Missouri. The GOP primary was jammed up with three candidates; Claire McCaskill, the Democratic incumbent, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15009","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=15009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15011,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15009\/revisions\/15011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}