{"id":32185,"date":"2011-11-18T09:49:45","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T16:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=32185"},"modified":"2011-11-18T09:49:45","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T16:49:45","slug":"wapo-conservative-jen-rubin-the-establishment-gops-hired-pimp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=32185","title":{"rendered":"WaPo "conservative" Jen Rubin: the establishment GOP's hired pimp?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So suggests Jeffrey Lord<\/a> at the American Spectator.<\/p>\n

Me, I’m more cynical still: I believe erstwhile Berkeley liberal<\/a> Jen Rubin never really changed her political stripes, that she is a 911 Republican (that is, a liberal hawk) at best<\/em>, and at worst, she’s a plant, a house slave, a legacy media-approved left-centrist advocating for “sane” conservatives who can be readily identified by their willingness to reject conservative principles and pander to “moderates” in order to prove themselves “electable.”<\/p>\n

For two election cycles now<\/a> it has been Rubin’s role to attack the GOP nominating field’s most conservative candidates in order to clear that field for a nomination of the least<\/i> conservative candidate — which is perfectly in keeping with the wishes of the GOP establishment (the reasons for which I’ll let you all consider<\/a>).<\/p>\n

To insulate herself, she recently lent praise to Rick Santorum’s campaign<\/a>, confident that having waited so long and stroking a conservative so far down in the polls that he has virtually no chance of rising, her efforts would have no real impact on the race — but just might give her cover from increasingly insistent suggestions that she is little more than a (in this election cycle) a Romney shill.<\/p>\n

Personally, I believe if she had her druthers, she’d have mounted the Huntsman juggernaut. But a WaPo conservative’s gotta do what a WaPo conservative’s gotta do…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So suggests Jeffrey Lord at the American Spectator. Me, I’m more cynical still: I believe erstwhile Berkeley liberal Jen Rubin never really changed her political stripes, that she is a 911 Republican (that is, a liberal hawk) at best, and at worst, she’s a plant, a house slave, a legacy media-approved left-centrist advocating for “sane” conservatives who can be readily identified by their willingness to reject conservative principles and pander<\/p>\n

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