{"id":9848,"date":"2011-08-12T10:08:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T15:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=9848"},"modified":"2011-08-12T10:09:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T15:09:22","slug":"the-winner-of-the-republican-candidates-debate-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/12\/the-winner-of-the-republican-candidates-debate-me\/","title":{"rendered":"The Winner of the Republican Candidates&#8217; Debate: Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched the first half of the Republican debate in Iowa last night, and I&#8217;m pleased to announce that I won.<\/p>\n<p>I won because I saw the candidates with the potential to win the presidential nomination (Romney, Bachmann, Pawlenty, and maybe Cain), and I did not react to any of them with an <em>Ew, not him<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike in 2008, where a McCain caller early in the process got very snitty with me because I didn&#8217;t think McCain would be much of an improvement over Hillary Clinton.  McCain was a candidate I would support only with my reluctant vote (although his vice-presidential choice got me to an event or two with some grubzits).<\/p>\n<p>But those people on stage, yeah, I can send them money (and have, in one case) and maybe spend a little time at the local HQ volunteering.  And that gives me hope and a little sense of some semblance of a role to play in shaping the future of the country.  Instead of just reluctantly voting for whomever the party has put out there because he&#8217;s slightly better than Hillary or the Sena (only a half term, so he only gets half the title) from Illinois.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched the first half of the Republican debate in Iowa last night, and I&#8217;m pleased to announce that I won. I won because I saw the candidates with the potential to win the presidential nomination (Romney, Bachmann, Pawlenty, and maybe Cain), and I did not react to any of them with an Ew, not [&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-9848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9848","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=9848"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9852,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9848\/revisions\/9852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}