{"id":4664,"date":"2008-02-09T08:03:57","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T08:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/02\/thompson-endorses-mccain.html"},"modified":"2008-02-09T08:03:57","modified_gmt":"2008-02-09T08:03:57","slug":"thompson-endorses-mccain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/02\/thompson-endorses-mccain.html","title":{"rendered":"Thompson endorses McCain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.washingtonpost.com\/the-trail\/2008\/02\/08\/fred_thompson_backs_mccain.html\">this<\/a> seems anti-climatic:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This is no longer about past preferences or differences. It is about what is best for our country and for me that means that Republican should close ranks behind John McCain,&#8221; Thompson said in a statement reported by the Associated Press.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That sounds kind of tepid, sort of like, we may not like him but we have to support him.<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2008\/02\/08\/mccain-fred-told-me-hell-support-me-i-swear\/\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this seems anti-climatic: &#8220;This is no longer about past preferences or differences. It is about what is best for our country and for me that means that Republican should close ranks behind John McCain,&#8221; Thompson said in a statement reported by the Associated Press. That sounds kind of tepid, sort of like, we may&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Thompson endorses McCain - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/02\/thompson-endorses-mccain.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thompson endorses McCain - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Well, this seems anti-climatic: &#8220;This is no longer about past preferences or differences. 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