{"id":4335,"date":"2012-09-16T09:57:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T14:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/?p=4335"},"modified":"2012-11-11T18:17:32","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T23:17:32","slug":"whats-mitt-romney-really-running-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=4335","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Mitt Romney REALLY Running For?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As if his foot-in-mouth remarks in Britain, his selection of Paul Ryan and his ill-advised statement on the assassination of our Libyan embassy staff weren&#8217;t enough, Mitt Romney&#8217;s appointment of Robert Bork as the chair of his Judicial Advisory Committee pretty much guarantees that Barack Obama will be re-elected come November 6.<\/p><p>I can&#8217;t believe that this is the same person who was Governor of the Commonwealth and who ran against Ted Kennedy for Senate.<\/p><p>Is this the real Mitt Romney?  Were we fooled back in 1994, or has Mitt suffered a medical condition that caused this radical metanoia?<\/p><p>I would suppose that the candidate&#8217;s recent reckless decisions are consistent with his Master of the Universe persona as a founding partner of Bain Capital.  Perhaps I&#8217;m wrong, but it seems to me that his extreme right wing opinions are out of step with most US voters, and that he and his campaign must be aware of that.<\/p><p>Thus, the question: since he doesn&#8217;t seem to want to be President, what does Mitt REALLY want?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if his foot-in-mouth remarks in Britain, his selection of Paul Ryan and his ill-advised statement on the assassination of our Libyan embassy staff weren&#8217;t enough, Mitt Romney&#8217;s appointment of Robert Bork as the chair of his Judicial Advisory Committee &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=4335\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4629,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335\/revisions\/4629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}