{"id":1297,"date":"2012-03-04T18:30:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T01:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2016-03-02T22:18:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T05:18:05","slug":"the-white-knight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=1297","title":{"rendered":"The White Knight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size-full wp-image-1301\" title=\"gopwhiteknight\">It&#8217;s pretty obvious by the anemic turnout for the primaries and caucuses in the farce that is Con-a-thon 2012, that there are many Republicans who aren&#8217;t too thrilled with the four candidates that have survived thus far: Spiff Romney, Rick &#8220;<a title=\"Santorum\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?source=ig&amp;hl=en&amp;rlz=&amp;q=Santorum&amp;btnG=Google+Search#hl=en&amp;gs_nf=1&amp;pq=rick+santorum&amp;cp=5&amp;gs_id=2f&amp;xhr=t&amp;q=Santorum&amp;pf=p&amp;sclient=psy-ab&amp;oq=Santo&amp;aq=0&amp;aqi=g4&amp;aql=&amp;gs_sm=&amp;gs_upl=&amp;gs_l=&amp;pbx=1&amp;bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&amp;fp=c471d03a2d2b8453&amp;biw=1228&amp;bih=877\" target=\"_blank\">Google Me<\/a>&#8221; Santorum, Uncle Newtie Gingrich and that gruff ol&#8217; Prospector Ron \u201cI\u2019m agin\u2019 everything\u201d Paul. Polls also indicate that President Obama would have an easy time beating any of these candidates. There are many articles on the mainstream media sites speaking of a brokered convention and a new &#8216;white knight&#8217; candidate to ride in and rescue the party from ignominious defeat in November. Well we&#8217;ve discovered that a new candidate, who reflects the values of the most extreme conservative Republicans (who just so happen to have a stranglehold on the party), has stepped forward to change the fortunes of the GOP. Finally the &#8216;white knight&#8217; has arrived!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1301\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1301\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=1301\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1301\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1301\" title=\"gopwhiteknight\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gopwhiteknight.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gopwhiteknight.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gopwhiteknight-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1301\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A &#8216;White Knight&#8217; candidate has emerged for the Republicans who embodies everything that the extreme right wing conservatives hold dear.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s pretty obvious by the anemic turnout for the primaries and caucuses in the farce that is Con-a-thon 2012, that there are many Republicans who aren&#8217;t too thrilled with the four candidates that have survived thus far: Spiff Romney, Rick &#8220;Google Me&#8221; Santorum, Uncle Newtie Gingrich and that gruff ol&#8217; Prospector Ron \u201cI\u2019m agin\u2019 everything\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=1297\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The White Knight&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,230,8,3],"tags":[234,331,252,22,147,9,1129,1282,199,21,98,343,426,19,427,1130],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4556,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions\/4556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}