{"id":193848,"date":"2008-11-12T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/12\/shoot-me-again-im-quoting-andrew-sullivan-now\/"},"modified":"2008-11-12T18:27:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T23:27:00","slug":"shoot-me-again-im-quoting-andrew-sullivan-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/12\/shoot-me-again-im-quoting-andrew-sullivan-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoot Me Again, I&#8217;m Quoting Andrew Sullivan Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2008\/11\/why-palin-still.html\">his opening &#8216;graph<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some readers think my continuing attempt to expose all the lies and flim-flam and bizarre behavior of Sarah Palin is now moot. She&#8217;s history &#8211; they argue. Move on. I think she probably is history. Even Bill Kristol and his minions in the McCain-Palin campaign may not be able to resuscitate her political viability now. But even if she is history, she is history that matters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That she is a disaster is certain.  That she will fade back to well deserved obscurity is likely.<\/p>\n<p>That this should have never happened in the first place is what needs to be examined.<\/p>\n<p>The idea that Bill Kristol, a man who has nothing to recommend him except his parents, got her nominated as VP because he <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">had a crush on her<\/span> after meeting her at the governor&#8217;s mansion while on an Alaska cruise for conservatives is frightening.<\/p>\n<p>That the media treated her as something other than a joke compounds the terror.<\/p>\n<p>That the media is now actively participating in her rehabilitation leads one to despair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read his opening &#8216;graph: Some readers think my continuing attempt to expose all the lies and flim-flam and bizarre behavior of Sarah Palin is now moot. She&#8217;s history &#8211; they argue. Move on. I think she probably is history. Even Bill Kristol and his minions in the McCain-Palin campaign may not be able to resuscitate &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1011,1064,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-media","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193848"}],"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=193848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}