{"id":119,"date":"2008-08-29T12:50:38","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T16:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/2008\/08\/29\/are-americans-ready-to-vote-for-a-woman\/"},"modified":"2008-08-29T12:50:38","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T16:50:38","slug":"are-americans-ready-to-vote-for-a-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/2008\/08\/29\/are-americans-ready-to-vote-for-a-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Americans Ready To Vote For A Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well isn\u2019t that interesting. McCain has picked <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sarah_Palin\">Sarah Palin<\/a> as his VP nominee. I heard an NPR reporter say that she didn\u2019t see what Palin brought to the ticket. Say what? <\/p>\n<p>Personally I think she brings a number of things. One is that she should help with some of the Republicans who worry that McCain isn\u2019t far enough to the right. Also she brings a strong and recent record for fighting both corruption and pork barrel spending. And there is also the little fact of being a woman. McCain needs help winning over women and Palin can help there a lot. A lot of those women who are upset about Clinton being \u201cpushed aside\u201d are going to see Palin as a real excuse to vote Republican.<\/p>\n<p>There is some concern in some parts about her stands on energy and I can understand that. But being in Alaska and being a hunter she has to be concerned about the environment so I can see some good potential there as she moves from an Alaska (oil producer) centric role to a national centric role.<\/p>\n<p>All in all I think the campaign just got a whole lot more interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well isn\u2019t that interesting. McCain has picked Sarah Palin as his VP nominee. I heard an NPR reporter say that she didn\u2019t see what Palin brought to the ticket. Say what? Personally I think she brings a number of things. One is that she should help with some of the Republicans who worry that McCain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}