{"id":10030,"date":"2007-02-24T12:10:18","date_gmt":"2007-02-24T17:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/10030.html"},"modified":"2007-02-24T12:10:18","modified_gmt":"2007-02-24T17:10:18","slug":"whats-wrong-with-sucking-up-to-everybody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/whats-wrong-with-sucking-up-to-everybody\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;What&#8217;s wrong with sucking up to everybody?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a hunch we&#8217;ll be seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/select.nytimes.com\/2007\/02\/24\/opinion\/24dowd.html\">this quote<\/a> pop up, repeatedly, for the next two years.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So some guy stands up after John McCain&#8217;s luncheon speech here yesterday to a group of business types and asks him a question.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve seen in the press where in your run for the presidency, you&#8217;ve been sucking up to the religious right,&#8221; the man said, adding: &#8220;I was just wondering how soon do you predict a Republican candidate for president will start sucking up to the old Rockefeller wing of the Republican Party?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. McCain listened with his eyes downcast, then looked the man in the eye, smiled and replied: &#8220;I&#8217;m probably going to get in trouble, but what&#8217;s wrong with sucking up to everybody?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>File it away. You&#8217;ll be hearing it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a hunch we&#8217;ll be seeing this quote pop up, repeatedly, for the next two years. So some guy stands up after John McCain&#8217;s luncheon speech here yesterday to a group of business types and asks him a question. &#8220;I&#8217;ve seen in the press where in your run for the presidency, you&#8217;ve been sucking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}