{"id":3398,"date":"2008-01-29T08:14:53","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T14:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3398"},"modified":"2008-01-29T08:14:53","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T14:14:53","slug":"the-gop-in-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/the-gop-in-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"The GOP in 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moby has some interesting thoughts<\/a> on the current Republican Party in America.
\nGranted he’s definitely not a Republican…<\/p>\n

sitting in my hotel room in london and i just finished watching bush’s final
\nstate of the union address.
\neh. to be honest it was kind of a non-event.
\nno nutty comments about steroids or trips to mars.
\nno new members in the axis-of-e-vil.
\nhe just seemed sort of out of touch and a bit lost and sort of
\ndesperate in a ‘uh oh, i don’t want to leave
\noffice with a 25% approval rating’ kind of way.
\nit got me thinking about the state of the republican right in 2008.
\nand how fractured it is.
\nto make a big sweeping generalization, there are 4 big components
\nto the republican right(let’s use simpsons examples)-
\n1-the flanderses(aka-cultural evangelical conservatives)
\n2-mr burns and kent brockman(rich guys who don’t like taxes)
\n3-cletus and brandene(ignorant hicks who believe that barack obama lives in baghdad with wmd’s)
\n4-grampa simpson(scared and angry people over 70)<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Moby suggests that the “flanderses like mike huckabee, mr burns likes mitt romney, cletus and brandene don’t know who they like but they know they don’t like hillary cos she wants to kill christmas, and grampa simpson likes john mccain cos he’s over 70 and doesn’t take sass from the young people.”<\/p>\n

Wonder which Simpson character is a fan of Ron Paul?<\/p>\n

A fairly broad paint brush of the GOP but probably not too far off. Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Moby has some interesting thoughts on the current Republican Party in America. Granted he’s definitely not a Republican… sitting in my hotel room in london and i just finished watching bush’s final state of the union address. eh. to be honest it was kind of a non-event. no nutty comments about steroids or trips to … Continue reading The GOP in 2008<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,5],"tags":[80,95,334],"class_list":["post-3398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-politics","tag-gop","tag-moby","tag-presidential-campaign"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-SO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}