{"id":1113,"date":"2008-09-24T16:09:47","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T21:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2008-09-24T16:14:20","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T21:14:20","slug":"off-the-deep-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1113","title":{"rendered":"Off the Deep End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[digg-reddit-me]Over in crazy land, also known as the <em>National Review<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=MTNlZTcyY2I4NTkzNzRhNDMzZGFiNTU1MGY2N2Y0YzE=\">Kathryn Jean Lopez says that many readers<\/a> are suggesting that as Obama is saying the debates will go on&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>they&#8217;d like McCain to just offer Palin step in for him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to go on record as being in favor of that.<\/p>\n<p>What are these people thinking? Either I&#8217;m crazy, or they are &#8211; and I&#8217;m hoping it&#8217;s them.<\/p>\n<p>(H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2008\/09\/news-from-the-p.html\">Andrew Sullivan<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that the McCain campaign is (1) seeing a rapid change in the polls and trying to take some momentum back; and (2) wants to postpone the Vice Presidential debate because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jedreport.com\/2008\/09\/new-gop-spin-palins-not-ready.html\">Palin isn&#8217;t ready<\/a> (as Republicans have acknowledged recently). The Vice Presidential debate is scheduled for next Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[digg-reddit-me]Over in crazy land, also known as the National Review, Kathryn Jean Lopez says that many readers are suggesting that as Obama is saying the debates will go on&#8230; they&#8217;d like McCain to just offer Palin step in for him. I&#8217;d like to go on record as being in favor of that. What are these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,5,45,6,4],"tags":[807,258,117,663],"class_list":["post-1113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-humor","category-mccain","category-obama","category-politics","tag-debates","tag-kathryn-jean-lopez","tag-national-review","tag-sarah-palin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-hX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1115,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions\/1115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}