{"id":195759,"date":"2008-06-16T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/16\/shoot-me-i-agree-with-canuck-flying-monkey-right-winger-david-frum\/"},"modified":"2008-06-16T17:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T22:36:00","slug":"shoot-me-i-agree-with-canuck-flying-monkey-right-winger-david-frum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/16\/shoot-me-i-agree-with-canuck-flying-monkey-right-winger-david-frum\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoot Me, I Agree With Canuck Flying Monkey Right Winger David Frum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Frum, writing in <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The New Republic<\/span>, in yet another example of how that magazine has fallen, actually writes something that I wholeheartedly support, though <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/politics\/story.html?id=769e49eb-696d-4894-9aa9-3c4937a24f08\">for very different reasons<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>I have my own personal nomination for vice president for McCain. It&#8217;s Rudy Giuliani, precisely because he shares the vision of a practical, reforming, war-winning Republican Party that inspires John McCain, plus the stronger-than-usual grounds for hoping that he might be the rare candidate who can make a difference in an essential state&#8211;in this case, New Jersey.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Simply put, it&#8217;s been way too long since I&#8217;ve had the opportunity to use the phrase, &#8220;Clown Show&#8221;, but making a your vice-presidential running mate the man who:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chose a police commissioner who was mobbed up.<\/li>\n<li>Who recommended said mobbed up police commissioner to be head of homeland security.<\/li>\n<li>Who broke up with his wife at a press conference on mothers day<\/li>\n<li>Whose first wife was his cousin<\/li>\n<li>Bailed on the Iraq study group so he could get fat speaker fees.<\/li>\n<li>Lobbyied for unsavory clients, including Saudi Arabia, Tobacco, and Coal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Would give me plenty of opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I can&#8217;t hope to own him the way that Joe Biden did when he said that when Rudy talks, &#8220;there\u2019s only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun and a verb and 9\/11.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That one is one of the classics of the ages, up there with George Bernard Shaw and Winston Churchill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Frum, writing in The New Republic, in yet another example of how that magazine has fallen, actually writes something that I wholeheartedly support, though for very different reasons: I have my own personal nomination for vice president for McCain. It&#8217;s Rudy Giuliani, precisely because he shares the vision of a practical, reforming, war-winning 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":[1100,977,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-presidential-campaign","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195759"}],"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=195759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}