{"id":32703,"date":"2012-11-05T07:16:51","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T11:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32703"},"modified":"2012-11-05T19:28:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T23:28:25","slug":"last-minute-endorsements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32703","title":{"rendered":"Last minute endorsements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>500 retired flag officers are sponsoring an ad in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/blog\/inside-politics\/2012\/nov\/4\/retired-top-military-brass-push-romney\/\">Washington Times<\/a> today endorsing Mitt Romney for President. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In plain terms the officers, who paid for the ad themselves, said they support Mr. Romney: &#8220;We, the undersigned, proudly support Governor Mitt Romney as our nation&#8217;s next president and commander-in-chief.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ad then goes on to list all of the officers, in alphabetical order, in four columns of print.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OK, that&#8217;s great, but where have you guys been the last four years? It seems to me that 500 flag officers endorsing Romney could have done a lot more by spreading out across the country talking for him than a simple list in a conservative newspaper. But, I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s just a way to piss off Marty Dempsey who thinks we should all sit down and shut up when we&#8217;re talking about his boss. <\/p>\n<p>Not on the list is Colin Powell, of course, because he&#8217;s his own man who votes his conscience (snickering here).<\/p>\n<p>In other not-news, John Hawkins of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingnews.com\/bloggers-select\/polling-conservative-bloggers-on-the-2012-election\/\">Right Wing News<\/a> polled conservative bloggers yesterday for our choice, and *surprise!* 92.6% of us are admitting that we&#8217;re voting for Romney and we expect Romney to win.<\/p>\n<p>So I guess the election is all sown up since everyone you expect to vote for Romney is still voting for him. <\/p>\n<p>By the way, by popular demand, TAH will be live-blogging the election returns tomorrow night, so mark your calenders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>500 retired flag officers are sponsoring an ad in the Washington Times today endorsing Mitt Romney &hellip; <a title=\"Last minute endorsements\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32703\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Last minute endorsements<\/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":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32703","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=32703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}