{"id":2599,"date":"2008-09-05T10:41:52","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T16:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/republicans-are-the-party-of-change\/"},"modified":"2008-09-05T10:41:52","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T16:41:52","slug":"republicans-are-the-party-of-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/republicans-are-the-party-of-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans are the Party of Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Small change, chump change, pocket change and &#8212; most importantly &#8212; a change for the worse.<\/p>\n<p>In 2000, the GOP went wild over a dim-witted and mean governor from a big western state. Where&#8217;s the change in 2008? The GOP can&#8217;t sweep that mistake off the stage fast enough in their rush to make the same mistake again.<\/p>\n<p>If you think a guy who voted 90% of the time with Duhbya &#8212; after all the abuse BushCo heaped on McCain in their do-anything-to-win campaign &#8212; is a change agent, I&#8217;ve got a Bridge to Nowhere for you. Note that with McCain&#8217;s record of differing with Bush 10% of the time, he represents the Republican concept of a maverick. (A maverick is the term they use for their friends. Traitor is what they call the rest of us.)<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Palin must think Duhbya is from the Rockefeller branch of the party &#8212; too damn liberal, if you ask her.<\/p>\n<p>If you think McCain promises safer, surer change than Obama, recall McCain&#8217;s temper, and note the temper of his running mate. These two represent a shocking move to the Far Right and Wrong &#8212; is that change you can live with? And if McCain dies in office, President Palin will nominate the next 3 Supreme Court Justices.<\/p>\n<p>peace,<br \/>mjh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small change, chump change, pocket change and &#8212; most importantly &#8212; a change for the worse. In 2000, the GOP went wild over a dim-witted and mean governor from a big western state. Where&#8217;s the change in 2008? The GOP can&#8217;t sweep that mistake off the stage fast enough in their rush to make the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/republicans-are-the-party-of-change\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Republicans are the Party of Change<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}