{"id":50109,"date":"2015-04-16T19:13:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T01:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/16\/dick-morris-and-the-mitt-romneying-of-hillary-clinton.html"},"modified":"2015-05-06T09:27:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T15:27:47","slug":"dick-morris-and-the-mitt-romneying-of-hillary-clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/16\/dick-morris-and-the-mitt-romneying-of-hillary-clinton.html","title":{"rendered":"Dick Morris and the Mitt Romneying of Hillary Clinton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which headline makes no sense until you actually read the article:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stonekettle.com\/2015\/04\/the-romney-strategy.html\">http:\/\/www.stonekettle.com\/2015\/04\/the-romney-strategy.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is Dick Morris (or the GOP) actually that fiendishly clever? Or just incoherent? Regardless, the final point is key:<\/p>\n<p><i>&#39;Yes, there are plenty of reasons not to vote for Hillary Clinton. Real reasons, not the ridiculous nonsense listed above, but real reasons. Sure. There are plenty of reasons to dislike Hillary Clinton. If you look, you can find hundreds of reasons to stay home.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>That said, I&rsquo;ll give you three reasons right now <\/i><b><i>not<\/i><\/b><i> to: Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz.&#39;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6138509072703167169\/6138509082131317970'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-cN3kVja2ugw\/VTBdfKryRNI\/AAAAAAADM-I\/ZpfvjzMcXBM\/111212_romney_hillary8_ap_3%255B1%255D.jpg?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/XiDqPYcwUvM'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which headline makes no sense until you actually read the article: http:\/\/www.stonekettle.com\/2015\/04\/the-romney-strategy.html Is Dick Morris (or the GOP) actually that fiendishly clever? Or just incoherent? Regardless, the final point is key: &#39;Yes, there are plenty of reasons not to vote for Hillary Clinton. Real reasons, not the ridiculous nonsense listed above, but real reasons. Sure. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/16\/dick-morris-and-the-mitt-romneying-of-hillary-clinton.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dick Morris and the Mitt Romneying of Hillary Clinton&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_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":[106,532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2016"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/111212_romney_hillary8_ap_35B15D.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131590,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/21\/the-progressive-case-for-hillary-clinton.html","url_meta":{"origin":50109,"position":0},"title":"The Progressive Case for Hillary Clinton","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 21-Sep-16 4:26am","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been as guilty as any of spending a lot more time attacking Donald Trump than supporting Hillary Clinton. 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