{"id":7977,"date":"2015-01-24T03:56:34","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T03:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7977"},"modified":"2015-01-24T03:56:34","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T03:56:34","slug":"go-for-it-sarah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7977","title":{"rendered":"Go for it, Sarah!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Sarah Palin says &#8220;of course&#8221; she&#8217;s interested in running for president of the United States in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how many potential candidates have made such a declaration. I think I&#8217;ve lost count.<\/p>\n<p>This one, though, is laughable on its face.<\/p>\n<p>Yet here I am. Commenting, albeit briefly, on it.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/01\/sarah-palin-possible-2016-run-114534.html?hp=r3_3<\/p>\n<p>Palin is the former half-term governor of Alaska. She was the Republican nominee for vice president in 2008. Then she &#8220;went rogue,&#8221; and might have cost the\u00a0ticket led by Sen. John McCain millions of votes the GOP otherwise might have gotten.<\/p>\n<p>She won&#8217;t run for president. Not this year. Not ever.<\/p>\n<p>Palin is, shall we say, damaged goods.<\/p>\n<p>The reality TV show? The strange behavior of her family getting involved &#8212; allegedly &#8212; in a fight at an Anchorage house party? The absolute absence of any knowledge of anything beyond TEA party talking points?<\/p>\n<p>Republicans are going to be blessed in 2016 with a relatively stellar field of potential candidates. It&#8217;ll be filled with heavyweights, individuals of actual accomplishment. Some of them are reasonable, rational, intelligent and articulate.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Palin? Not &#8230; a &#8230; chance.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, why not? She&#8217;ll liven it up, yes? You betcha.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Palin says &#8220;of course&#8221; she&#8217;s interested in running for president of the United States in 2016. I don&#8217;t know how many potential candidates have made such a declaration. I think I&#8217;ve lost count. This one, though, is laughable on its face. Yet here I am. Commenting, albeit briefly, on it. http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/01\/sarah-palin-possible-2016-run-114534.html?hp=r3_3 Palin is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7977\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Go for it, Sarah!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[57,73,236,1941,2546,3907,4119,4531],"class_list":["post-7977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","tag-2008-campaign","tag-2016-campaign","tag-alaska-governor","tag-gop","tag-john-mccain","tag-republican-party","tag-sarah-palin","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}