{"id":181593,"date":"2016-05-10T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/10\/i-gotta-find-another-metaphor-this-is-the-3rd-time-in-as-many-days-that-i-am-referring-to-a-bagfull-of-cats\/"},"modified":"2016-05-10T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T23:45:00","slug":"i-gotta-find-another-metaphor-this-is-the-3rd-time-in-as-many-days-that-i-am-referring-to-a-bagfull-of-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/10\/i-gotta-find-another-metaphor-this-is-the-3rd-time-in-as-many-days-that-i-am-referring-to-a-bagfull-of-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"I Gotta Find Another Metaphor, This Is the 3Rd Time in as Many Days That I Am Referring To, &#8220;A Bagfull of Cats&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This time, I am referring to Ted Cruz, who is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/ted-cruz-open-unsuspending-his-campaign-if-he-can-win-nebraskas-primary\">making noises about reentering the primary race<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Ever since Ted Cruz dropped out of the Republican presidential race last week, Glenn Beck and his co-hosts have been holding on to a sliver of hope that if Cruz could still somehow manage to win today&#8217;s Republican primary in Nebraska, that would convince the Texas senator to unsuspend his campaign and re-enter the race.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Today, Cruz called into Beck&#8217;s radio program and Beck&#8217;s co-host Pat Gray directly asked Cruz about this possibility.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;If Nebraska were to somehow miraculously choose you tonight,&#8221; Gray asked, &#8220;if that happened, would you consider getting back in the race?&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Cruz responded that he would certainly be open to that admittedly slight possibility.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Please.<\/p>\n<p>Make.<\/p>\n<p>Ir,<\/p>\n<p>Stop.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/politics\/news\/a44738\/ted-cruz-nebraska-primary\/\">Charlie Pierce<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time, I am referring to Ted Cruz, who is making noises about reentering the primary race: Ever since Ted Cruz dropped out of the Republican presidential race last week, Glenn Beck and his co-hosts have been holding on to a sliver of hope that if Cruz could still somehow manage to win today&#8217;s Republican &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1158,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aggravation","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}