We’re in Boston to visit Kate’s parents, and while we wait for SteelyKid to wake up and demand food, we’re watching “Mike and Mike” on ESPN2 (the live simulcast of the radio show). They’ve been talking about how tonight’s NFL kick-off (our long national nightmare is over…) was pushed up so as not to conflict with the Republican Convention.<\/p>\n
I can’t help thinking, though, that given John McCain’s charisma (or lack thereof), the Republicans might be better served by having the football game run opposite McCain’s speech. That way, their core audience will opt for watching the game live, and only catch highlights of the speech on Fox News, where sycophantic anchors and the video-editing talents of Colbert Nation can make it seem like the speech was a rip-roaring success…<\/p>\n
If you were a Republican, which would you prefer? People watching McCain live, or watching football, and only hearing about the speech second-hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We’re in Boston to visit Kate’s parents, and while we wait for SteelyKid to wake up and demand food, we’re watching “Mike and Mike” on ESPN2 (the live simulcast of the radio show). They’ve been talking about how tonight’s NFL kick-off (our long national nightmare is over…) was pushed up so as not to conflict… Continue reading If You Were a Republican…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,28,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-politics","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}