{"id":3346,"date":"2016-11-29T21:25:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T02:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/?p=3346"},"modified":"2016-11-29T21:25:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T02:25:32","slug":"the-ghost-of-republican-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/29\/the-ghost-of-republican-present\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ghost of Republican Present!"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the Obama years,\u00a0Republicans have been haunted by\u00a0Generic Republican —\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0that\u00a0nameless, faceless candidate who always out-performs any Democratic candidate with a name and face. Moreover,\u00a0Generic Republican<\/em> also out-polled\u00a0other Republican primary candidates! \u00a0<\/p>\n

Real candidates have policies, positions, and political records, it seems. \u00a0Generic Republican<\/em>, on the other hand was whatever the poll participant wanted him to be — the ultimate “hope and change” candidate.<\/p>\n

It is now clear that we have found\u00a0the “ghost of campaigns past” which has been eluding\u00a0the Grand Old Party for years. A political outsider with no specific ideology, no voting record, and no specific message. The Democrat suddenly turned Republican. \u00a0The pro-choice guy\u00a0who\u00a0suddenly wanted to punish a woman who had an abortion. The armchair critic who once derided Mitt Romney for his\u00a0self-deportation position — now ready to\u00a0advocate mass deportations!<\/p>\n

The ultimate “feel your pain” candidate. \u00a0A true blank check. \u00a0You want to mine coal, then coal it is. You want jobs, then jobs you will have. You dislike demographic shifts, then I don’t like them either. \u00a0Any of them! They are rapists and terrorists and there are millions of them, just walking free.<\/p>\n

Are you feeling afraid, then I’ll mirror your fear, compounded and returned with interest! Civility, sensitivity, politeness, discretion, respect, honesty, accountability — all gone by the board. \u00a0I mean, really, what else do you have to lose?\u00a0<\/p>\n

We have just elected Generic\u00a0Republican — the mirror of our own worst selves. “God bless us, every one!”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During the Obama years, Republicans have been haunted by Generic Republican<\/i> — that nameless, faceless candidate who always out-performs the Democratic candidate with a name and face.<\/p>\n

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Moreover, Generic Republican<\/i> also out-polled other Republican primary candidates!<\/p>\n

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Larry believes that the concept of Generic Republican<\/i> has special significance in the last presidential election.<\/p>\n Continue reading →<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sidebar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}