{"id":26378,"date":"2012-02-13T08:44:47","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T15:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/13\/crazy.html"},"modified":"2012-02-13T15:32:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T22:32:32","slug":"crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/13\/crazy.html","title":{"rendered":"Crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear GOP voters:<\/p>\n<p>Y&#39;know, I don&#39;t like Romney a lot, either.  He comes across as three times the elitist that John Kerry ever did.  He seems to have no moral principles except the imperative to say whatever he thinks his audience wants to hear, even if he said exactly the opposite a day, a week, a month, a decade ago.  He&#39;s a hack who wants to become president so that he can cut his own taxes.<\/p>\n<p>I get it.  Mitt&#39;s nobody&#39;s favorite candidate. <\/p>\n<p>And, understandably, you&#39;re not going to vote for Obama, even though his positions would track him nicely as a moderate Republican from before, oh, a decade or two ago.<\/p>\n<p>But, for all that is holy and sane &#8230; <i>Rick Santorum?<\/i>  Really?  That&#39;s the alternative you seem to be going with? Criminitely, when you guys tank in November, you have nobody to blame but yourselves.  #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear GOP voters: Y&#39;know, I don&#39;t like Romney a lot, either. He comes across as three times the elitist that John Kerry ever did. He seems to have no moral principles except the imperative to say whatever he thinks his audience wants to hear, even if he said exactly the opposite a day, a week, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/13\/crazy.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Crazy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,99],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-26378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2012","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":153528,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2021\/03\/07\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years.html","url_meta":{"origin":26378,"position":0},"title":"Still chatty after all these years","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 7-Mar-21 12:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Stupid Evil Podcast is ... well, it was fun.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;DDtB-SEB Podcasts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"DDtB-SEB Podcasts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/podcasts\/ddtb-seb-podcasts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":136275,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/06\/and-lo-there-shall-come-another-seb-podcast.html","url_meta":{"origin":26378,"position":1},"title":"And, lo, there shall come another SEB Podcast!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 6-May-18 2:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been an astonishing three years since +Les Jenkins and I did one of his Stupid Evil Bastard podcasts (the biggest takeaway from which was that it had been three years since we previously did it, and that was clearly way, way too long). 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