{"id":14097,"date":"2008-01-01T15:00:21","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T20:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/14097.html"},"modified":"2008-01-01T15:00:21","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T20:00:21","slug":"isnt-blood-lust-a-bad-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/isnt-blood-lust-a-bad-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Isn&#8217;t blood-lust a bad thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hesitate to give too much attention to Mike Huckabee&#8217;s promote-my-ad-for-free attack, but Michael Crowley raises a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.tnr.com\/tnr\/blogs\/the_stump\/archive\/2007\/12\/31\/huck-quot-no-executions-quot.aspx\">good point<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>About mid-way through the ad, during a litany of accusations against Mitt Romney, Huckabee criticizes his rival with this data point: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thepage.time.com\/huckabees-negative-ad\/\">No executions<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Huckabee &#8212; you know, the evangelical, pro-life Republican &#8212; is going after Romney for not having executed any Americans during his gubernatorial tenure.<\/p>\n<p>I realize Republican politics are far more crass than norms should allow, but it&#8217;s disconcerting to think &#8220;You didn&#8217;t kill anyone&#8221; has suddenly become a <i>criticism<\/i> in conservative circles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hesitate to give too much attention to Mike Huckabee&#8217;s promote-my-ad-for-free attack, but Michael Crowley raises a good point. About mid-way through the ad, during a litany of accusations against Mitt Romney, Huckabee criticizes his rival with this data point: &#8220;No executions.&#8221; Apparently, Huckabee &#8212; you know, the evangelical, pro-life Republican &#8212; is going after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14097","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=14097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}