{"id":7273,"date":"2015-02-23T20:45:59","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T02:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=7273"},"modified":"2015-02-23T20:45:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T02:45:59","slug":"scott-walker-is-yet-another-conservative-jackass-who-needs-to-be-honest-or-shut-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/scott-walker-is-yet-another-conservative-jackass-who-needs-to-be-honest-or-shut-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Walker is yet another Conservative jackass who needs to be honest or shut up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2016 is going to be ugly as hell. But discouraging, dispiriting, disgusting, and disenfranchising voters are all strategies of the Radical Wrong. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/what-we-dont-know-about-scott-walker\/2015\/02\/23\/626e738a-bba8-11e4-bdfa-b8e8f594e6ee_story.html?wprss=rss_dana-milbank\">Scott Walker\u2019s insidious agnosticism &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a> By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/dana-milbank\">Dana Milbank<\/a> Opinion writer<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Here is what one of those meet-the-candidate Q&amp;As might look like if the answers were drawn from actual demurrals Walker has used in other contexts in recent weeks: <\/p>\n<p><strong>Why does Scott Walker hate America?<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never asked him that.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>When did he stop beating his wife? <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe can speak for himself.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Does Walker love his children? <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, I\u2019m going to punt on that one as well.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Does he have ties to the Muslim Brotherhood? <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know. I honestly don\u2019t know, one way or the other. I\u2019ve said that 100 times, too.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll go out on a limb and stipulate that Walker loves his country and his family, and I have no reason to think he isn\u2019t a good Christian and a decent man. But <strong>he\u2019d be a better man if he didn\u2019t insinuate with his demurrals that his political opponents are not<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/what-we-dont-know-about-scott-walker\/2015\/02\/23\/626e738a-bba8-11e4-bdfa-b8e8f594e6ee_story.html?wprss=rss_dana-milbank\">Scott Walker\u2019s insidious agnosticism &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2016 is going to be ugly as hell. But discouraging, dispiriting, disgusting, and disenfranchising voters are all strategies of the Radical Wrong. Scott Walker\u2019s insidious agnosticism &#8211; The Washington Post By Dana Milbank Opinion writer Here is what one of those meet-the-candidate Q&amp;As might look like if the answers were drawn from actual demurrals Walker &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/scott-walker-is-yet-another-conservative-jackass-who-needs-to-be-honest-or-shut-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scott Walker is yet another Conservative jackass who needs to be honest or shut up<\/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-7273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273","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=7273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7274,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273\/revisions\/7274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}