{"id":31253,"date":"2012-11-06T23:09:16","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T06:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/06\/gracious-loss-and-not.html"},"modified":"2012-11-06T23:09:16","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T06:09:16","slug":"gracious-loss-and-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/06\/gracious-loss-and-not.html","title":{"rendered":"Gracious loss. And not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romney ended his campaign with a gracious, classy concession speech.<\/p>\n<p>Some of his previous supporters were not quite as gracious or classy. \u00a0For all of the talk about how Obama is such an &quot;angry man&quot; &#8212; there&#39;s a lot of anger going on out there in the GOP punditry. \u00a0And little sense of any &quot;Hmmm, maybe the population didn&#39;t go for our ideas, so maybe we need to reconsider them.&quot;<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images2-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/media.salon.com\/2012\/11\/sour_grapes_rect-150x150.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/11\/07\/the_20_biggest_sore_losers_of_election_night\/'>The 20 biggest sore losers of election night<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWe rank the most churlish reactions to President Obama&#8217;s reelection &#8212; and Donald Trump is a winner!\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/6cVkXRUwRaT' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romney ended his campaign with a gracious, classy concession speech. Some of his previous supporters were not quite as gracious or classy. \u00a0For all of the talk about how Obama is such an &quot;angry man&quot; &#8212; there&#39;s a lot of anger going on out there in the GOP punditry. \u00a0And little sense of any &quot;Hmmm, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/06\/gracious-loss-and-not.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gracious loss. 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