{"id":9952,"date":"2012-02-02T08:47:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T13:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=9952"},"modified":"2012-02-02T09:02:01","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T14:02:01","slug":"have-democrats-succeeded-in-pre-destroying-romney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/02\/02\/have-democrats-succeeded-in-pre-destroying-romney\/","title":{"rendered":"Have Democrats Succeeded in Pre-Destroying Romney?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Atlantic<\/em> article, <a title=\"The Atlantic article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2012\/02\/have-democrats-succeeded-in-pre-destroying-romney\/252407\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Have Democrats Succeeded in Pre-Destroying Romney?<\/strong><\/a>, has the teaser,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Inside the left&#8217;s little-noticed, relentless, brutally effective campaign to tear down the Republican front-runner in advance of the general election.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Further down in the article is the quote,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;The key date for us is in November,&#8221; he said. &#8220;What we&#8217;re doing is educating the community to the positions that this candidate, Mitt Romney, was taking as he sought our votes. Mitt Romney&#8217;s going to find this little anchor placed around his neck getting heavier and heavier.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is a video referenced in the article,<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_3SP_12whtY\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>I am just disappointed that, as a Democrat, nobody told me about this wonderful plan.  I have been telling a certain Senatorial campaign that they need to be educating the public, and all I get is flak for making my comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic article, Have Democrats Succeeded in Pre-Destroying Romney?, has the teaser, Inside the left&#8217;s little-noticed, relentless, brutally effective campaign to tear down the Republican front-runner in advance of the general election. Further down in the article is the quote, &#8220;The key date for us is in November,&#8221; he said. &#8220;What we&#8217;re doing is educating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9952"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9958,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9952\/revisions\/9958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}