{"id":222,"date":"2008-09-10T11:51:38","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T15:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/wp\/?p=222"},"modified":"2008-09-10T11:51:38","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T15:51:38","slug":"the_palinmccain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2008\/09\/the_palinmccain\/","title":{"rendered":"The Palin-McCain equation&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Has anybody noticed how Palin is the one that talks for 20 minutes, get&#8217;s the crowd into a frenzy, and then passes the mic to McCain, he repeats his mantras like an obsessed for 5 minutes and then is over? The other day I commented that I thought that it was actually McCain the Trojan Horse for Palin (or Palin alikes) into the White House. If that is the &#8220;change&#8221; they propose, placing a Christian fundamentalist in the W.H. isn&#8217;t the kind that should be welcomed by anybody. Yes, the whole thing is &#8220;mavericking&#8221; (*) their way into the W.H. <\/p>\n<p>The sad part is that they openly keep repeating the mantra of &#8220;maverick this,&#8221; &#8220;maverick that,&#8221; and nobody has noticed anything or even care by their choice of words. I&#8217;m sure the GOP strategists must be having a private blast of laughter&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/20080910-mccain-palin.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/20080910-mccain-palin.html','popup','width=900,height=524,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/20080910-mccain-palin-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" height=\"116\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>(*) M-W definition of &#8216;mavericking&#8217;: <b>2 West : to obtain by dishonest or questionable means<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has anybody noticed how Palin is the one that talks for 20 minutes, get&#8217;s the crowd into a frenzy, and then passes the mic to McCain, he repeats his mantras like an obsessed for 5 minutes and then is over? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2008\/09\/the_palinmccain\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[19,17,18],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-maverick","tag-mccain","tag-palin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}