{"id":298,"date":"2008-02-27T10:33:04","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T15:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=298"},"modified":"2008-02-27T09:39:21","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T14:39:21","slug":"a-narrow-market-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=298","title":{"rendered":"A narrow market share"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm.  Perhaps <a href=\"http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/?p=297\">my prediction of Mr. McCain&#8217;s possible Vice Presidents<\/a> is entirely determined by <a href=\"http:\/\/article.nationalreview.com\/print\/?q=MjRiNGQ4MGYxYjE1Y2QxOGRiMzdkNWY1OTc4MjJjMjE=\">this Byron York column<\/a> I read earlier which listed the two as Mr. McCain&#8217;s two main choices.  I had forgotten reading this yesterday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This line from Mr. Pawlenty struck me though:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;if the definition of conservative is going to be so narrowly construed as to only be those things to the right of John McCain, we\u2019re going to have a fairly narrow market share.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It shouldn&#8217;t be striking to see Mr. McCain described as a far right conservative &#8211; as his record demonstrates he is one.  But it is given how he is labeled by the media as an &#8220;independent&#8221; and &#8220;maverick.&#8221;\u00a0 While Mr. McCain clearly has demonstrated independence on some issues &#8211; and some very important issues &#8211; in his foreign policy prescriptions, in his choice of economic advisers, and in his stances on social issues, Mr. McCain is a far right conservative.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad Mr. Sanford realizes this.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm. Perhaps my prediction of Mr. McCain&#8217;s possible Vice Presidents is entirely determined by this Byron York column I read earlier which listed the two as Mr. McCain&#8217;s two main choices. I had forgotten reading this yesterday&#8230; This line from Mr. Pawlenty struck me though: &#8230;if the definition of conservative is going to be so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[22,45,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-mccain","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-4O","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","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=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}