{"id":12058,"date":"2007-11-28T23:24:33","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T06:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/11\/28\/to-the-right-ever-to-the-right.html"},"modified":"2007-11-28T23:24:33","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T06:24:33","slug":"to_the_right_ever_to_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/28\/to_the_right_ever_to_the.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;To the Right &#8230; ever to the Right &#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watching, from my hotel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/POLITICS\/11\/28\/debate.main\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Republican \/ YouTube debate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yeesh.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure if the questions were scarier, or the answers.<\/p>\n<p>And as I watch the candidates lurch off to the Right &#8212; with only the most occasional appeal to a more centrist position (from Rudy, natch), I can only conclude that pretty much anyone the Dems are likely to put up &#8212; my most or least favorite &#8212; would be preferable to this gang of idiots.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just sayin&#8217; &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching, from my hotel, the Republican \/ YouTube debate. Yeesh. Not sure if the questions were scarier, or the answers. 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