{"id":3224,"date":"2011-11-01T08:24:28","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T13:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3224"},"modified":"2011-11-01T08:24:28","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T13:24:28","slug":"too-many-facts-just-cut-a-few","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3224","title":{"rendered":"Too many facts, just cut a few"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Washington Post<\/a> via the  Washington Monthly<\/a> (via Balloon Juice<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Republicans are hierarchical, and we like order. We almost always nominate the second-place finisher from the previous election or an early-consensus frontrunner. This suggests that Romney should be our frontrunner. But a lot of the criticism of him is true: He has issues with authenticity, his support is thin, and he has some nagging preexisting policy positions that will have to be managed, not solved. If you had to make a bet, though, you would bet on Romney.<\/p>\n

[….]<\/p>\n

Even though Cain won’t be the nominee, his candidacy tells us a lot about the psychology of GOP<\/span> activists. Our team wants someone authentic, creative, fresh, bold and likeable. And we don’t have much tolerance for too many facts or too much information<\/strong>. In politics, a bumper sticker always beats an essay. Cain’s 9-9-9 is a bumper sticker; Romney’s economic plan is an essay. Perry’s rationale for giving the children of undocumented workers in-state college tuition rates is an essay. No hand-outs for illegal aliens is an effective bumper sticker.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yes, too much information.  Not what our (their) team wants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Washington Post via the  Washington Monthly (via Balloon Juice): Republicans are hierarchical, and we like order. We almost always nominate the second-place finisher from the previous election or an early-consensus frontrunner. This suggests that Romney should be our frontrunner. But a lot of the criticism of him is true: He has issues with … Continue reading Too many facts, just cut a few<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1217,521,1219,1991,1218],"class_list":["post-3224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-ed-rogers","tag-facts","tag-gop","tag-logic","tag-simplicity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3226,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224\/revisions\/3226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}