{"id":2866,"date":"2012-05-02T14:34:36","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T21:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2012\/05\/02\/the-loopy-left\/"},"modified":"2012-05-02T20:10:14","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T03:10:14","slug":"the-loopy-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2012\/05\/the-loopy-left\/","title":{"rendered":"the loopy left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican committeepeople are expected to find unaffiliated voters to sign up as Republicans.\u00a0 Apparently it&#8217;s what we do.\u00a0 Except, what we&#8217;ve been doing has brought a heavy contingent of RINOs into the Elbert County Republican Party.\u00a0 And now we&#8217;ve got this hybrid party working that&#8217;s half liberal and half conservative.\u00a0 And I don&#8217;t mean just a little bit liberal.\u00a0 There are committed leftists calling themselves Republicans around here.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been writing about this for years.\u00a0 Rather than potentially bring more RINO voters into the party before the primary election, I thought it would be best to focus on conservative people to try to bring into the party.\u00a0 So I wrote the <a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2012\/05\/01\/are-you-a-republican\/\">Are You A Republican?<\/a> blog item yesterday.\u00a0 The blog is an effective way to reach people since it gets about a thousand hits a day.<\/p>\n<p>I really didn&#8217;t expect that the post would drive the New-Plains boys over the edge.\u00a0 But it did.\u00a0 Click on their editorial below.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, science, I love it!\u00a0 Now we have evidence that Republicans don&#8217;t have to be <em>progressive-light<\/em> to effectively campaign against the left.\u00a0 If Republicans just speak the basic messages and values they stand for, the left melts down.\u00a0 This stuff is like droplets of water landing on the Wicked Witch of the West, or a puff of air on a hillside of quaking aspen leaves.\u00a0 Simple truth has a mysterious power over them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/stupid-propagana-piece-gets-a-responce.jpg\" title=\"\u201cStupid propagana piece gets a responce\u201d\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/stupid-propagana-piece-gets-a-responce.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cStupid propagana piece gets a responce\u201d\" height=\"470\" width=\"245\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/brooks-mindrut.jpg\" title=\"Brooks Mindrut\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/brooks-mindrut.jpg\" alt=\"Brooks Mindrut\" height=\"470\" width=\"262\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(click to enlarge)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican committeepeople are expected to find unaffiliated voters to sign up as Republicans.\u00a0 Apparently it&#8217;s what we do.\u00a0 Except, what we&#8217;ve been doing has brought a heavy contingent of RINOs into the Elbert County Republican Party.\u00a0 And now we&#8217;ve got this hybrid party working that&#8217;s half liberal and half conservative.\u00a0 And I don&#8217;t mean just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}