{"id":5842,"date":"2013-02-20T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=5842"},"modified":"2013-02-20T11:16:41","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T17:16:41","slug":"let-the-republicans-bloody-each-other-for-years-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/let-the-republicans-bloody-each-other-for-years-to-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Let the Republicans bloody each other for years to come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would be fine with Gingrinch and Rove killing each other &#8212; literally. There is no better fight to the death than between fat old rich white men. Bring it on. The young Republicans &#8212; a nauseating oxymoron &#8212; can bury the dead and make up fairy tales about how great they were and will be again. Bullshit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/02\/20\/could-newt-gingrich-attac_n_2725203.html\">Could Newt Gingrich Attack On Rove Signal Beginning Of Public Intra-Establishment Fight?<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;I am unalterably opposed to a bunch of billionaires financing a boss to pick candidates in 50 states,&quot; Gingrich writes, casting Rove as the &quot;boss&quot; picking candidates through groups like American Crossroads. &quot;No one person is smart enough nor do they have the moral right to buy nominations across the country.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;That is the system of Tammany Hall and the Chicago machine. It should be repugnant to every conservative and every Republican,&quot; he writes. <\/p>\n<p>Gingrich also mocks Rove for his &quot;blow up&quot; on Fox News on Election Night, after Fox called Ohio for Obama. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Handing millions to Washington based consultants to destroy the candidates they dislike and nominate the candidates they do like is an invitation to cronyism, favoritism and corruption,&quot; Gingrich writes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/02\/20\/could-newt-gingrich-attac_n_2725203.html\">Could Newt Gingrich Attack On Rove Signal Beginning Of Public Intra-Establishment Fight?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would be fine with Gingrinch and Rove killing each other &#8212; literally. There is no better fight to the death than between fat old rich white men. Bring it on. The young Republicans &#8212; a nauseating oxymoron &#8212; can bury the dead and make up fairy tales about how great they were and will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/let-the-republicans-bloody-each-other-for-years-to-come\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Let the Republicans bloody each other for years to come<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5842","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=5842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}