{"id":73399,"date":"2015-09-03T08:02:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T16:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=73399"},"modified":"2015-09-03T08:02:58","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T16:02:58","slug":"who-are-the-alternatives-to-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=73399","title":{"rendered":"Who Are The Alternatives To Donald Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/nyt-trump-isnt-naive-enough\/\">Comments to Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>* You raise an interesting question: are *any* of the alternatives to Don T. especially classy\/cosmopolitan? Hillary though a valedictorian at a Seven Sisters college and potential meritocratic success story till moving to Arkansas, is a frumpy anti-charismatic girl-nobody-likes-at-the-party. Jeb despite otherwise being a shoo-in for overclass president is named \u201cJeb.\u201d Christie is a boorish fat guy; Carson is all Jesusy n\u2019 stuff. Biden I find somehow lacking in sophisticated literary eclat. Kasich is obviously mental; Cruz resembles Uriah Heep crossed with Yosemite Sam. Walker is a hick who may not be too bright.<\/p>\n<p>The closest to the elite executive ideal is Fiorina but she\u2019s had health problems and inexplicably continues to make a big deal out of Planned Parenthood\u2019s recycling division.<\/p>\n<p>* Steve Sailer: Cruz might be a high IQ Nixon-type with an unlikable personality.<\/p>\n<p>I like Walker, personally, but Harry Truman is all the upside I can imagine for him if everything breaks right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments to Steve Sailer: * You raise an interesting question: are *any* of the alternatives to Don T. especially classy\/cosmopolitan? Hillary though a valedictorian at a Seven Sisters college and potential meritocratic success story till moving to Arkansas, is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=73399\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29752],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73400,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73399\/revisions\/73400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}