{"id":735207,"date":"2010-05-27T13:43:04","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T17:43:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:45:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:45:27","slug":"and-speaking-of-provocative-blog-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/735207","title":{"rendered":"And speaking of provocative blog posts&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=3953\">CT Blue<\/a>, aka Democratic activist John Wirzbicki of Noank,&nbsp;observes that&nbsp;Republican U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon&nbsp;has deftly avoided&nbsp;ideological categorization, despite some national media types who have her pegged as a Tea Partier.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My read, and I think this is widely shared around here, is that she has, so far, avoided committing herself to any agenda, right wing or otherwise,&#8221; Wirzbicki writes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She has no particular loyalty to the Republican party, that&#8217;s clear. She&#8217;s a little like Bloomberg in that respect-the party is just a vehicle to get her where she wants to go. Had there been a vulnerable Republican in the seat, she&#8217;d be a Democrat right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CT Blue, aka Democratic activist John Wirzbicki of Noank,&nbsp;observes that&nbsp;Republican U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon&nbsp;has deftly avoided&nbsp;ideological categorization, despite some national media types who have her pegged as a Tea Partier. &#8220;My read, and I think this is widely shared around here, is that she has, so far, avoided committing herself to any agenda, right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-35gb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836358,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735207\/revisions\/836358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}