{"id":4803,"date":"2010-09-26T07:08:46","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T07:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=4803"},"modified":"2010-09-26T07:08:46","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T07:08:46","slug":"the-markets-are-rational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-markets-are-rational\/","title":{"rendered":"The markets are rational?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/douthat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/22\/sarah-palin-still-not-the-front-runner\/\">Sarah Palin: Still Not the Front-Runner<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;But right now, in autumn 2010, <b>at what seems like a moment of maximal populist outrage and anti-establishment fervor, Sarah Palin can\u2019t crack 20 percent in primary polling<\/b>, and Mitt Romney (for all his manifold weaknesses) still has the most plausible path to the nomination. Which suggests to me that concerns about stability, solidity and electability may play a bigger role in the 2012 Republican campaign than many observers seem to think.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have expressed <a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=4064\">skepticism<\/a> of a Mitt Romney candidacy before in large part because he backed a health care plan in Massachusetts which prefigured much of what we saw in the Democrats&#8217; plan. As this may be the peak of anger about the Democrats&#8217; legislation in the medium term I&#8217;m struck by the fact that Romney still has polling traction at all. I do remember being very confused as to why John McCain hadn&#8217;t been totally discredited when it came out that he&#8217;d seriously mulled switching to the Democrats in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p>That being said Romney does seem like a candidate who is good on paper, but can never come through on the national stage. Honestly, I really don&#8217;t know what the hell is going on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Palin: Still Not the Front-Runner: &#8230;But right now, in autumn 2010, at what seems like a moment of maximal populist outrage and anti-establishment fervor, Sarah Palin can\u2019t crack 20 percent in primary polling, and Mitt Romney (for all his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-markets-are-rational\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[1131],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4805,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803\/revisions\/4805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}