{"id":3728,"date":"2016-04-27T14:31:47","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T18:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3728"},"modified":"2016-04-27T14:31:47","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T18:31:47","slug":"oh-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3728","title":{"rendered":"Oh, boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So: Ted Cruz <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/04\/27\/politics\/ted-cruz-carly-fiorina-vice-president\/index.html?adkey=bn target=\"_blank\">will announce<\/a> that Carly Fiorina will be his running-mate if he somehow or other wins the Republican nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Like &#8230; maybe he&#8217;ll win the nomination if he picks a woman.<\/p>\n<p>This has the feel of gratuitous pandering, and is too reminiscent of John McCain&#8217;s choice of the flamingly unqualified Sarah Palin.  I predict: Fail.<\/p>\n<p>Early on, I liked Fiorina.  What&#8217;s not to like about somebody who can face down The Donald and draw blood while all the gentlemen on the stage stand by with their eyes bulging out?  I just wish she had brains to match that titanium backbone; alas, she blew any hope of my vote when she started fantasizing about things she <i>didn&#8217;t actually see<\/i> in those doctored anti-abortion videos.<\/p>\n<p>Another thing: How does a blinking-neon Dominionist like Ted Cruz ever grant, or propose to grant, power to a woman?  This is going to cost him some of his natural base, I predict.<\/p>\n<p>The Republicans just get more ridiculous, more transparent, more obviously cynical, with every passing day.  Just now, I can&#8217;t for the life of me imagine any option for a sane adult but to clip a clothespin on his nose and vote for Hilary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So: Ted Cruz<\/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\/3728"}],"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=3728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3729,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions\/3729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}