{"id":5406,"date":"2012-01-21T09:51:01","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T14:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=5406"},"modified":"2012-01-21T10:00:49","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T15:00:49","slug":"a-romney-i-supported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=5406","title":{"rendered":"A Romney I supported&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;when I was 17 year&#8217;s old. I could support him today too.<\/p>\n<p>I was delighted to find this video clip on the <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com\/2012\/01\/the-root-of-mitts-inauthenticity.html\">Daily Dish<\/a>. My Dad was a big Romney booster and was crushed that Romney&#8217;s line about his having been &#8220;brainwashed&#8221; in 1965 into thinking our growing Vietnam efforts were necessary should cause him to be ridiculed out of the GOP&#8217;s Presidential consideration in 1968.<\/p>\n<p>We got Dick Nixon then because the Party&#8217;s warhawks and Dr. Strangeloves had too much pull. They were a lot like the Ft. Sumpter bombing South Carolinians of today who are trying to foist Newt Gingrich on the Nation. No thank you. Its too bad Mitt is such a pale shadow of his Father. <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/fSdSiBehQpI?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/fSdSiBehQpI?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>If we had heeded Romney&#8217;s call we could have avoided killing a million Vietnamese and 50,000 Americans. Unfortunately, America&#8217;s chicken shit politicians wanted to show the world that we would and could stand up to any shadow anywhere in the world that might be flipping us the bird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;when I was 17 year&#8217;s old. I could support him today too. I was delighted to find this video clip on the Daily Dish&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,75,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5406"}],"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=5406"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5413,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5406\/revisions\/5413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}