{"id":2549,"date":"2008-01-04T04:59:26","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T04:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2549"},"modified":"2008-01-04T04:59:26","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T04:59:26","slug":"iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2549","title":{"rendered":"Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll preface my comments by saying that no candidate on the GOP side has stirred my interest and, by philosophy, no\u00a0candidate on the Democratic side could possibly reflect my worldview.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, I can honestly say that I&#8217;m very glad that Hillary Clinton went down in flames. She doesn&#8217;t have the temperment to be president of a large organization, much less of\u00a0the United States,\u00a0and neither her political experience nor intelligence can make up for an isolated and autocratic\u00a0character that I see as deeply marked by frustration, rigidity and Boomer self-righteousness. Imagine a liberal Richard Nixon in drag, but without the foreign policy vision, and you have a good picture of what a Hillary Clinton administration would be like.<\/p>\n<p>Iowa isn&#8217;t the last nail in the coffin of her campaign but I&#8217;ll be pleased if it&#8217;s the first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll preface my comments by saying that no candidate on the GOP side has stirred my interest and, by philosophy, no\u00a0candidate on the Democratic side could possibly reflect my worldview. Nevertheless, I can honestly say that I&#8217;m very glad that Hillary Clinton went down in flames. She doesn&#8217;t have the temperment to be president of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-188","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}