{"id":4162,"date":"2011-12-29T16:59:23","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T21:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=4162"},"modified":"2011-12-29T16:59:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T21:59:23","slug":"maybe-the-republicans-are-getting-some-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=4162","title":{"rendered":"Maybe the Republicans are getting some sense&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;there is not much going on with politics but the Iowa nonsense with the repubs but I can&#8217;t believe that there is so much time and attention being expended on this weird, throwback of a process. When you do the math, the whole caucus there and all of the votes amount to less than one-half of one percent of the total electorate in the US and the winner comes out thinking that he or she is presidential material and has earned a mandate to continue. But that is not what this is about&#8230;this is supposed to be about the repubs getting some sense and abandoning the idiot Newt for the nonsense he has been spouting&#8230;now, ole Newt may be right at home in a Dickens novel, but he is certainly not presidential material and it looks like even the hard right that controls the elections in Iowa has wised up to that fact. Well&#8230;maybe I&#8217;m wrong that they&#8217;ve gotten smarter&#8230;since they have pushed Rick Santorum to second place in the polls and have even kept Ron Paul in the running&#8230;this could be fun to watch if you like slow-motion crashes&#8230;.I know, not too lucid but I&#8217;m really trying so bear with me a while&#8230;if I don&#8217;t get better then abandon me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;there is not much going on with politics but the Iowa nonsense with the repubs but I can&#8217;t believe that there is so much time and attention being expended on this weird, throwback of a process. When you do the math, the whole caucus there and all of the votes amount to less than one-half &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=4162\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maybe the Republicans are getting some sense&#8230;.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[287,96,37],"class_list":["post-4162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-iowa","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4163,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions\/4163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}