{"id":4987,"date":"2012-05-15T18:57:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T22:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=4987"},"modified":"2012-05-15T18:57:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T22:57:18","slug":"a-short-one-about-the-republican-playbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=4987","title":{"rendered":"A short one about the republican playbook.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;this thought just came to me as I have been reading about the vagueness of the economic proposals that are coming out of the Romney camp&#8230;it occurs to me that this is the exact same playbook that Scott Walker used to get elected in Wisconsin&#8230;lie to the people about your true intentions and make yourself look as innocuous as possible&#8230;never revealing your true, radical agenda until after the election&#8230;the only problem is that there is no way to recall a president that does that like there are in many of the states. this appears to be in the repub playbook all across the country as we move toward the election&#8230;.just more of the &#8220;bait and switch&#8221; that the repubs have done so successfully over the past few years&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>One last thing&#8230;the repubs have sunk to a new low today in Virginia for rejecting a judicial candidate just because he is gay and supports civil rights for gays and lesbians. While I abhor this kind of conduct by the repubs&#8230;I also feel that it is going to hasten the inevitable decline of those troglodytes and we may not have to deal with them anymore by the end of my lifetime&#8230;.we can hope, anyway&#8230;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;this thought just came to me as I have been reading about the vagueness of the economic proposals that are coming out of the Romney camp&#8230;it occurs to me that this is the exact same playbook that Scott Walker used to get elected in Wisconsin&#8230;lie to the people about your true intentions and make yourself &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=4987\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A short one about the republican playbook..<\/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":[691,470,37,479,637],"class_list":["post-4987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-gay-rights","tag-mitt-romney","tag-republicans","tag-scott-walker","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4987","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=4987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4988,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4987\/revisions\/4988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}