{"id":3744,"date":"2012-08-10T22:05:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T03:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3744"},"modified":"2012-08-10T22:05:06","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T03:05:06","slug":"you-aint-just-dogwhistling-dixie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3744","title":{"rendered":"You ain’t just (dog)whistling Dixie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newt Gingrich suggested that Romney serve Chick-fil-a at the Republican convention (reported in Newsmax here<\/a>).  <\/p>\n

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I certainly think that the Romney campaign would be smart to serve Chick-fil-A at the convention for one occasion. I think that would send a pretty clear signal to people without having done very much except to make it happen.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Now, there's the first read of this, which is, I think, what Newsmax has in mind: that Romney, who's seen as having missed an opportunity to show his cultural conservative bona fides<\/em> with the chicken sandwich issue, can make clear that he stands with opponents of gay marriage with a small token.  But I have a bit more of a less optimistic reading of what Newt communicated with this.  I think he's asking for Romney to make the move only to show just how weak Romney is on cultural issues important to conservatives. (Does anyone remember the "who's a real conservative<\/a>?" issue in the Republican Primaries?)  And if Romney doesn't <\/em>make the move, then even worse for him.  Gingrich was clear in the primaries that he didn't see Romney as a real conservative, and this suggestion here has ambiguous import on that issue. Here's another way to put my second point:  Gingrich, with the second sentence, is implicating that Romney hasn't <\/em>been clear on the issue.  That's enough for social conservatives.  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Newt Gingrich suggested that Romney serve Chick-fil-a at the Republican convention (reported in Newsmax here).  I certainly think that the Romney campaign would be smart to serve Chick-fil-A at the convention for one occasion. I think that would send a pretty clear signal to people without having done very much except to make it happen. … Continue reading You ain’t just (dog)whistling Dixie<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[1438,178,295,2008],"class_list":["post-3744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newt-gingrich","tag-dogwhistle","tag-gay-marriage","tag-mitt-romney","tag-newt-gingrich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3745,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744\/revisions\/3745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}