{"id":184425,"date":"2012-05-03T21:13:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T02:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/05\/03\/well-it-looks-like-wimp-is-the-meme-that-mitt-will-have-to-fight\/"},"modified":"2012-05-03T21:13:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T02:13:00","slug":"well-it-looks-like-wimp-is-the-meme-that-mitt-will-have-to-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/05\/03\/well-it-looks-like-wimp-is-the-meme-that-mitt-will-have-to-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, It Looks Like Wimp is the Meme that Mitt Will Have to Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Case in point, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/03\/us\/politics\/richard-grenell-resigns-from-mitt-romneys-foreign-policy-team.html\">is the exit of Richard Grenell from the Romney campaign<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>It was the biggest moment yet for Mitt Romney\u2019s foreign policy team: a conference call last Thursday, dialed into by dozens of news outlets from around the globe, to dissect and denounce President Obama\u2019s record on national security.<\/p>\n<p>But Richard Grenell, the political strategist who helped organize the call and was specifically hired to oversee such communications, was conspicuously absent, or so everyone thought.<\/p>\n<p>It turned out he was at home in Los Angeles, listening in, but stone silent and seething. A few minutes earlier, a senior Romney aide had delivered an unexpected directive, according to several people involved in the call.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRic,\u201d said Alex Wong, a policy aide, \u201cthe campaign has requested that you not speak on this call.\u201d Mr. Wong added, \u201cIt\u2019s best to lay low for now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For Mr. Grenell, the message was clear: he had become radioactive.<\/p>\n<p>It was the climax of an unexpectedly messy and public dispute over the role and reputation of Mr. Grenell, a foreign policy expert who is gay and known for his support of same-sex marriage, his testy relationship with the news media and his acerbic Twitter postings on everything from Rachel Maddow\u2019s femininity to how Callista Gingrich \u201csnaps on\u201d her hair.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They hire this guy as a national security expert, he organizes a conference call on the subject, but because the Talibaptist knuckle draggers hate &#8220;te ghey&#8221;, the Romney campaign folds like overcooked broccoli.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, I don&#8217;t expect him to go for a Sistah Soljah moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case in point, is the exit of Richard Grenell from the Romney campaign: It was the biggest moment yet for Mitt Romney\u2019s foreign policy team: a conference call last Thursday, dialed into by dozens of news outlets from around the globe, to dissect and denounce President Obama\u2019s record on national security. But Richard Grenell, the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1051,1030,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypocrisy","category-lgbtq","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184425"}],"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=184425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}