{"id":10979,"date":"2008-02-19T21:34:22","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T02:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2008\/02\/19\/10979.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:48:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:48:11","slug":"thank-you-for-whatever-youre-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2008\/02\/19\/thank-you-for-whatever-youre-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you for whatever you’re smoking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Although the true subtext of the rambling, garrulous Christopher Buckley op-ed called The Manchurian Conservative<\/a> appears to be I like John McCain because he pisses off all my Daddy’s friends<\/I>, the point in the text is … um … well, may I quote the last paragraph in full?
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I’d love to have been inside his brain—or to have had a mind-reading crawl run across the bottom of the TV screen—as he was offering his emollient words. I’m guessing it was something along the lines of, &#8220All right, you blinking, high-maintenance idjits, if this is what it takes, I’m willing to do it, but honestly I’d rather be doing vodka shots with Hillary Clinton.” But then defiance—defiance of the gleeful kind—is a quality I’ve always associated with conservatism.<\/blockquote>
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So. What's great about John McCain is his gleeful defiance, the kind of defiance that is completely silent and inside his brain, or even better, can be imagined to be inside his brain. That's<\/I> defiance! The willingness to put up with high-maintenance idiots instead of drinking with political bedfellows. That kind of defiance. Yep, the one thing you can say about John McCain is…
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Well, actually, it looks like you can say whatever you want about John McCain.
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Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,
-Vardibidian.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Which, honestly, if YHB had to go over to Henry Kissinger’s house every Christmas and sit around with him and William F. Buckley all afternoon, YHB might start hallucinating about politics, too. But then, would the New York Times print my rambling visions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18274,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10979\/revisions\/18274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}