{"id":184784,"date":"2012-01-21T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/21\/crap-i-was-hoping-for-a-cain-colbert-victory\/"},"modified":"2012-01-21T23:15:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T04:15:00","slug":"crap-i-was-hoping-for-a-cain-colbert-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/21\/crap-i-was-hoping-for-a-cain-colbert-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Crap!  I Was Hoping for a Cain\/Colbert Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 285px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/img207.imageshack.us\/img207\/2444\/2z4wlzr4880327.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/img207.imageshack.us\/img207\/2444\/2z4wlzr4880327.gif\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Pass the Popcorn!<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Newt Gingrich <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/newt-gingrich-wins-south-carolina-primary\/2012\/01\/21\/gIQAKTxBHQ_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won the South Carolina primary by a large margin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Former House speaker Newt Gingrich scored an easy victory Saturday in the South Carolina primary, blowing a hole in Mitt Romney\u2019s aura of inevitability.<\/p>\n<p>The 14-point win represented a swift and extraordinary turnaround in Gingrich\u2019s fortunes \u2014 thanks largely to strong performances in two debates. In those forums, he issued a stirring appeal to the state\u2019s strident conservatism, convinced its voters he would be a formidable opponent against President Obama and threw Romney off his stride.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think that Newt can win.<\/p>\n<p>First, he really doesn&#8217;t have a campaign organization.<\/p>\n<p>Second, he won South Carolina for blatant and explicit appeals to racism, because many, if not most, of the Republicans in South Carolina are unrepentant racists who give Gingrich props for, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/19\/us\/romneys-lead-narrows-in-south-carolina-as-negative-advertising-heats-up.html?_r=2&amp;hp=&amp;pagewanted=print\">putting Mr. Juan Williams in his place<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He has a knack for the basest parts of the Republican id, but there are a lot of racists, outside of South Carolina anyway, who find such blatant appeals to racism to be excessive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pass the Popcorn! Newt Gingrich won the South Carolina primary by a large margin: Former House speaker Newt Gingrich scored an easy victory Saturday in the South Carolina primary, blowing a hole in Mitt Romney\u2019s aura of inevitability. The 14-point win represented a swift and extraordinary turnaround in Gingrich\u2019s fortunes \u2014 thanks largely to strong &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184784"}],"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=184784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}