{"id":5778,"date":"2019-01-06T10:08:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T15:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=5778"},"modified":"2019-01-06T10:08:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T15:08:22","slug":"the-portly-politico-explains-the-hereditary-nature-of-mitt-romneys-treachery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/06\/the-portly-politico-explains-the-hereditary-nature-of-mitt-romneys-treachery\/","title":{"rendered":"The Portly Politico Explains the Hereditary Nature of Mitt Romney&#8217;s Treachery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Any of you readers under the age of 50 wouldn&#8217;t be expected to remember that Mitt Romney&#8217;s father ran for president against Richard Nixon back in 1968.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/theportlypolitico.wordpress.com\/2019\/01\/06\/romneys-perfidy-runs-in-the-family\/\">Tyler over at the Portly Politico has a very enlightening essay about the elder Romney<\/a> and the nature of the Romney spinelessness.<\/p>\n<p>Their behavior brings to mind that classic Firefly meme, &#8220;Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"783\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e35BU1eB_5k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any of you readers under the age of 50 wouldn&#8217;t be expected to remember that Mitt Romney&#8217;s father ran for president against Richard Nixon back<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1489,245,237,1594],"tags":[48,1649,1647,687,1418,1595,1648],"class_list":["post-5778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-guest-contributors","category-review-of-article","category-reviews","category-the-portly-politico","tag-firefly","tag-george-romney","tag-hoban-washburne","tag-mitt-romney","tag-richard-nixon","tag-the-portly-politico","tag-wash"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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