{"id":23508,"date":"2011-05-20T08:03:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T12:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23508"},"modified":"2011-05-20T08:03:11","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T12:03:11","slug":"the-medias-next-rino-darling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23508","title":{"rendered":"The media&#8217;s next RINO darling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conn Carrol, in the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/columnists\/2011\/05\/conn-carroll-looking-liberal-mainstream-medias-rino-favorite-2012\">Washington Examiner<\/a>, takes a look at who will replace John McCain in the upcoming election as the media&#8217;s hand-selected RINO candidate. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So who will be 2012&#8217;s elite-media darling? There are three main candidates:<\/p>\n<p>Mitch Daniels: Much like McCain&#8217;s February 2000 attack on social conservatives, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels angered many social conservatives when he told the Weekly Standard&#8217;s Andrew Ferguson that the next president would have to &#8220;call a truce on the so-called social issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And what social conservatives hate, the elite media love. The Washington Post&#8217;s Ruth Marcus, David Broder and Chris Cilliza have all since written columns urging Daniels to get in the race.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus&#8217; is a classic, writing: &#8220;I hope Mitch Daniels runs for president. Let me go further: I hope he wins the Republican nomination. I can&#8217;t imagine voting for him.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You need to read the whole thing. The media has a history of backing GOP losers for candidates because, well, they&#8217;re Democrats for the large part. If we had believed those clowns in the 2000 election when they told us they&#8217;d vote for McCain (which they obviously wouldn&#8217;t do judging by the 2008 election) we&#8217;d have had Al Gore on 9-11 instead of a president who reacted properly.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, I still have people trying to convince me they would have voted for McCain in 2000&#8230;but never Bush. Well, who cares now, dingus? Bush didn&#8217;t need your vote, did he? I guess it&#8217;s their way of trying to convince me that they&#8217;re independent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conn Carrol, in the Washington Examiner, takes a look at who will replace John McCain in &hellip; <a title=\"The media&#8217;s next RINO darling\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23508\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The media&#8217;s next RINO darling<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}