{"id":45,"date":"2007-11-29T13:55:31","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T17:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=45"},"modified":"2007-11-29T13:55:31","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T17:55:31","slug":"character-still-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Character Still Counts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the 2004 election, I wrote (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/daddypundit.blogspot.com\/2004\/10\/character-counts.html\">here<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/daddypundit.blogspot.com\/2004\/10\/character-counts-part-two.html\">here<\/a>) that a candidate&#8217;s character should be a key factor in deciding who to vote for in an election. Four years later it&#8217;s still true: a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/columnists\/MarvinOlasky\/2007\/11\/29\/whos_your_favorite_we_should_not_choose_by_voting_record_alone\">candidate&#8217;s character should be carefully examined <\/a>before deciding who to vote for.<\/p>\n<p>Character is exactly why <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/editorial_opinion\/oped\/articles\/2007\/11\/29\/the_moment_of_truth_for_clinton\/\">Hillary Clinton&#8217;s support is crumbling among Democrats <\/a>and why <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2007\/11\/huckabee_is_for_real.html\">Mike Huckabee&#8217;s support is rising among Republicans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you look at the positions of the candidates of each party, it&#8217;s easy to see they are fairly similar within their respective parties. Policies and voting records are certainly important to consider, but when it comes down to the final decision, it&#8217;s a candidate&#8217;s character that will matter most. When voters fail to consider a candidate&#8217;s character, they do so at their own (and ultimately) the country&#8217;s peril.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the 2004 election, I wrote (here and here) that a candidate&#8217;s character should be a key factor in deciding who to vote for in an election. Four years later it&#8217;s still true: a candidate&#8217;s character should be carefully examined before deciding who to vote for. Character is exactly why Hillary Clinton&#8217;s support is crumbling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-tom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}