{"id":4794,"date":"2012-05-09T07:58:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T13:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=4794"},"modified":"2012-05-09T07:58:48","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T13:58:48","slug":"romney-the-push-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/romney-the-push-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney the push-over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I almost never read Jonah Goldberg, who makes Calcified Cal Thomas seem reasonable. However, I made it through this whole column without puking<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/jonahgoldberg\/2012\/05\/09\/romney_feeds_the_crocs\">Romney Feeds the Crocs &#8211; Jonah Goldberg &#8211; Townhall Conservative Columnists &#8211; Page 1<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;If Mitt Romney can be pushed around, intimidated, coerced, co-opted by a conservative radio talk show host in Middle America, then how is he going to stand up to the Chinese? How is he going to stand up to Putin?&quot; So asked Bryan Fischer, a radio host with the American Family Association, after claiming credit for Richard Grenell&#8217;s scalp. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>If you want a politician to adopt your position, you shouldn&#8217;t then mock him for adopting your position. That&#8217;s not smart politics or lobbying; <font style=\"background-color: #ffff00\">it&#8217;s public bullying as theater<\/font>: &quot;Ha ha! I made you do it!&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/jonahgoldberg\/2012\/05\/09\/romney_feeds_the_crocs\">Romney Feeds the Crocs &#8211; Jonah Goldberg &#8211; Townhall Conservative Columnists &#8211; Page 1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I almost never read Jonah Goldberg, who makes Calcified Cal Thomas seem reasonable. However, I made it through this whole column without puking Romney Feeds the Crocs &#8211; Jonah Goldberg &#8211; Townhall Conservative Columnists &#8211; Page 1 &quot;If Mitt Romney can be pushed around, intimidated, coerced, co-opted by a conservative radio talk show host in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/romney-the-push-over\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Romney the push-over<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4795,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/revisions\/4795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}