{"id":184177,"date":"2012-07-13T19:06:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T00:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/07\/13\/martin-omalley-2012\/"},"modified":"2012-07-13T19:06:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T00:06:00","slug":"martin-omalley-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/07\/13\/martin-omalley-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin O&#8217;Malley 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has to be one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/zekejmiller\/omalley-mccain-saw-romneys-tax-returns-and-he-c\">best slams of the Presidential election so far<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Maryland Gov. Martin O&#8217;Malley introduced a new line of attack on Gov. Mitt Romney today, saying the public should be suspicious of him because in 2008 Sen. John McCain considered the now-presumptive Republican nominee to be his running mate&#8230;but picked Sarah Palin instead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What about running for the office of the presidency this year makes it less important than the job that he didn&#8217;t get over Palin the last time around?&#8221; O&#8217;Malley asked BuzzFeed, <b><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">referencing the 23 years of returns Romney allowed McCain to examine<\/span><\/b> while he was being vetted but hasn&#8217;t released to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Pressed in an interview at the National Governors Association meeting here whether there would be anything in those returns that would disqualify Romney from the presidency, O&#8217;Malley said he doesn&#8217;t know \u2014 and that&#8217;s why Democrats want to see them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But why would you pick somebody \u2014 why would you pick Palin over Romney?&#8221; he asked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<i>emphasis mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>Sweet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has to be one of the best slams of the Presidential election so far: Maryland Gov. Martin O&#8217;Malley introduced a new line of attack on Gov. Mitt Romney today, saying the public should be suspicious of him because in 2008 Sen. John McCain considered the now-presumptive Republican nominee to be his running mate&#8230;but picked &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1002,1071,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-writing","category-maryland","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184177"}],"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=184177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}