{"id":4112,"date":"2011-10-05T11:54:01","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T16:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4112"},"modified":"2011-10-05T11:54:01","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T16:54:01","slug":"one-still-waiting-for-a-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4112","title":{"rendered":"One still waiting for a boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Andrew Sullivan <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com\/2011\/10\/recalling-romneys-weakness.html\">says<\/a> of Mitt Romney:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The record nonetheless shows Romney as once passionately pro-choice, a man who vowed a decade and a half ago to be more pro-gay than Ted Kennedy, a man who embraced and shaped universal healthcare on lines close to identical to Obama&#8217;s but now vows to repeal it, a man who opposed tax loopholes before Obama targeted them, a figure so shape-shifty it&#8217;s impossible to know how he&#8217;d govern, except by sticking a wet finger into the air. There&#8217;s a reason the GOP is uncomfortable with him, why Perry did so well in fundraising this past quarter, why the idiotic Christie-fever ran wild, and why Herman Cain, of all people, is now neck and neck with a former governor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;This is starting to hurt where my feelings should be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color:#000000;width:520px;\">\n<div style=\"padding:4px;\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:398901\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" base=\".\" flashVars=\"\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;background-color:#FFFFFF;padding:4px;margin-top:4px;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/tue-october-4-2011\/indecision-2012---the-great-right-hope---the-manchurian-candi-dad\">The Daily Show with Jon Stewart<\/a><\/b><br \/>Get More: <a href='http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/full-episodes\/'>Daily Show Full Episodes<\/a>,<a href='http:\/\/www.indecisionforever.com\/'>Political Humor &#038; Satire Blog<\/a>,<a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thedailyshow'>The Daily Show on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Andrew Sullivan says of Mitt Romney: The record nonetheless shows Romney as once passionately pro-choice, a man who vowed a decade and a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}