{"id":1017,"date":"2015-05-11T09:17:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T13:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2015-05-11T09:18:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T13:18:10","slug":"george-will-on-huckabee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1017","title":{"rendered":"George Will on Huckabee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/mike-huckabees-awful-crusade\/2015\/05\/08\/d983dc9e-f51e-11e4-b2f3-af5479e6bbdd_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">George Will<\/a>, the exemplar for modern conservatism, &#8216;gets&#8217; that Mike Huckabee mustn&#8217;t become president.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Now comes the Apostle Mike, determined to save Christian America.<\/p>\n<p>[ &#8230; ]<\/p>\n<p>For many voters, a party is largely defined by the behavior of its presidential aspirants. For Republicans worried about broadening their party\u2019s appeal, there is one word for Huckabee\u2019s stances: Appalling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, he gets no argument from me; honestly, I can&#8217;t think how anyone devoted to American ideals can be anything <i>but<\/i> appalled by the prospect of a Huckabee presidency.  But: The evangelical right will rally to Huckabee, because he is one of theirs, and they are persecuted by &#8216;the world,&#8217; <i>et cetera<\/i>, <i>et cetera<\/i>, <i>et cetera<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>It is always a mistake to go long against the common sense and decency of the American people, so I don&#8217;t think Huckabee will achieve any more than fouling the waters and building his mailing-list.  But the mere fact that somebody so manifestly unfit for high office can gather media attention, and money, and exercise influence, is a good indication of how hopelessly childish our electoral politics have become.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even George Will, the exemplar for modern conservatism, &#8216;gets&#8217; that Mike Huckabee mustn&#8217;t become president. Now comes the Apostle Mike, determined to save Christian America. [ &#8230; ] For many voters, a party is largely defined by the behavior of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1017\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/1019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}