{"id":212,"date":"2008-01-04T11:15:54","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T16:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joel.fouse.net\/wp\/2008\/01\/04\/conjectures\/"},"modified":"2021-06-18T16:24:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T21:24:27","slug":"conjectures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joel.fouse.net\/wp\/2008\/01\/04\/conjectures\/","title":{"rendered":"Conjectures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thinking a Huckabee-McCain ticket would be a pretty powerful thing.  Huck carries the conservatives who are concerned with a few of Mac&#8217;s social positions, and Mac carries enough foreign policy cred for both of them.  It would seem they differ on the current administration&#8217;s Iraq policies, but in the heat of political battle that shouldn&#8217;t be too difficult to reconcile to present a united front for a way forward.<\/p>\n<p>If McCain were on top, on the other hand, I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised at all if he picked Lieberman for veep.  Unfortunately, while there&#8217;s the whole bi-partisan appeal going for it, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s as compelling a ticket overall and would most likely fall to Obama-Hillary.<\/p>\n<p>Scratch that.  She&#8217;d never accept veep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thinking a Huckabee-McCain ticket would be a pretty powerful thing. Huck carries the conservatives who are concerned with a few of Mac&#8217;s social positions, and Mac carries enough foreign policy cred for both of them. It would seem they differ on the current administration&#8217;s Iraq policies, but in the heat of political battle that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joel.fouse.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joel.fouse.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joel.fouse.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joel.fouse.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joel.fouse.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/joel.fouse.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"https:\/\/joel.fouse.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joel.fouse.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joel.fouse.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joel.fouse.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}