{"id":2984,"date":"2009-10-17T11:13:10","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T19:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=2984"},"modified":"2009-10-17T11:14:42","modified_gmt":"2009-10-17T19:14:42","slug":"the-romney-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-romney-paradox\/","title":{"rendered":"The Romney Paradox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The<\/em> <em>American Conservative<\/em>\u2019s Daniel Larison responds to my <a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=2975\" target=\"_blank\">earlier post<\/a> on the &#8216;Party of Huckabee&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amconmag.com\/larison\/2009\/10\/17\/the-anti-huckabee-party\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. As always with Larison, the whole thing is well worth a read, but even if I may not agree with everything he has to say in his post, this section is spot-on:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026the things that make Romney more attractive to non-evangelicals in the GOP also force him to spend more time trying to prove that evangelicals and social conservatives can accept him. Aside from the complication that his religion introduces into this, this means that Romney has to emphasize social issues, on which he has no credibility, and public professions of religious faith, which are some of the things that so many Republicans and independents find viscerally unappealing about what they perceive to be the norm in Republican politics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Conservative\u2019s Daniel Larison responds to my earlier post on the &#8216;Party of Huckabee&#8217; here. As always with Larison, the whole thing is well worth a read, but even if I may not agree with everything he has to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-romney-paradox\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15,1],"tags":[362],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2984"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2987,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984\/revisions\/2987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}