{"id":26782,"date":"2012-03-01T14:46:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T21:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/01\/not-passing-the-sniff-test.html"},"modified":"2012-03-01T14:46:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T21:46:39","slug":"not-passing-the-sniff-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/01\/not-passing-the-sniff-test.html","title":{"rendered":"Not passing the sniff test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really, Michigan GOP?  You&#39;re that scared of Rick Santorum (I mean, I&#39;m scared of him, too, but &#8230;) that you have to pull this kind of zany &quot;Oh, we set up the rules early last month, but sent out the wrong memo to the candidates and everyone&quot; shenanigans? Great way to let Santorum garner some sympathy (and take the heat off of his robocalls to Dems).  #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20120301\/NEWS15\/120301038\/Mitt-Romney-gets-Michigan-s-large-delegates'>Mitt Romney gets Michigan&#39;s at-large delegates<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michigan\u2019s two at-large delegates to the Republican National convention will be awarded to Michigan native Mitt Romney, following a vote last night by the state party\u2019s credentials\u2019 committee.<br \/>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really, Michigan GOP? You&#39;re that scared of Rick Santorum (I mean, I&#39;m scared of him, too, but &#8230;) that you have to pull this kind of zany &quot;Oh, we set up the rules early last month, but sent out the wrong memo to the candidates and everyone&quot; shenanigans? Great way to let Santorum garner some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/01\/not-passing-the-sniff-test.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not passing the sniff test&#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":"","_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],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-26782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26641,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/23\/there-is-pretty-much-nothing-romney-wont-say.html","url_meta":{"origin":26782,"position":0},"title":"There is pretty much nothing Romney won&#39;t say","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 23-Feb-12 11:04am","format":false,"excerpt":"... to get the Religious Right to vote for him. No matter what he said a decade ago, a year ago, last week ... he'll pander to whatever he wants to hear.I can't wait to hear whether he tries to walk back again when he gets to the general election.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&gadget=a&resize_h=100&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F02%2FGoogle-ChromeScreenSnapz4081-300x219.png","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":26170,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/08\/the-colorado-gop-caucus.html","url_meta":{"origin":26782,"position":1},"title":"The Colorado GOP Caucus","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 8-Feb-12 7:15am","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, interesting results; I don't think it will change the ultimate picture for long, but we'll see.Romney basically took the Denver\/Boulder area, the I70 corridor most of the way across the state, and the NW corner of Colorado (what's the Mormon population up there?). Santorum took almost everything else (except\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27180,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/21\/shake-shake-shake-that-etch-a-sketch.html","url_meta":{"origin":26782,"position":2},"title":"Shake-shake-shake that Etch-a-Sketch","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 21-Mar-12 10:37am","format":false,"excerpt":"And this guy's the communications director for \"Resolute Romney\". When asked if having to campaign so far to the Right against Santorum and Gingrich and Everyone-Else-But-Romney would hurt Romney when it came time to run in the national campaign, his answer was:\"Well, I think you hit a reset button for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25065,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/04\/you-keep-using-that-fascism-word.html","url_meta":{"origin":26782,"position":3},"title":"&quot;You keep using that &#39;fascism&#39; word","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 4-Jan-12 11:05am","format":false,"excerpt":"I do not think it means what you think it means.\"\"More and more dependency, more and more government \u2014 exactly what my grandfather left [Mussolini's Italy] in 1925.\" -- Rick SantorumUm ... Rick? Fascism is not about increased dependency on government by the people. And, trains-running-on-time canard or not, social\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26224,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/08\/stay-classy-gop-conservatives.html","url_meta":{"origin":26782,"position":4},"title":"Stay classy, GOP conservatives!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 8-Feb-12 8:16pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, a lovely person you're inviting to CPAC. Along with the current GOP candidate triumvirate. I wonder if any of them will actually distance themselves from this yahoo. Sh'yeah, right. #ddtb Embedded Link CPAC Set to Host White Nationalist Leader | Right Wing Watch Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Rick\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24930,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/30\/is-ideology-taking-a-back-seat-to-electability.html","url_meta":{"origin":26782,"position":5},"title":"Is ideology taking a back seat to electability?","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 30-Dec-11 9:45am","format":false,"excerpt":"The article suggests that GOP primary voters \/ poll-takers are worrying more about electability of their presidential primary candidates (vs. Obama) than about what they believe in. 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