{"id":7646,"date":"2016-04-11T09:16:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T15:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/?p=7646"},"modified":"2016-04-12T07:38:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T13:38:05","slug":"still-undecided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2016\/04\/still-undecided\/","title":{"rendered":"still undecided"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was passing strange when Ken Buck represented the 1% of Colorado citizens who attend Republican caucuses as 40% of all voters yesterday (4\/11\/16) on the Mark Levin show. Stranger still that Levin went right along with the charade that unelected caucus attendees represent the voters. I lost count of the number of times he echoed the 40% of all voters myth.<\/p>\n<p>I have to separate my respect for Levin&#8217;s constitutional analysis from my disgust over his knee jerk support for the non-representative caucus system.<\/p>\n<p>When will the Colorado GOP figure out that they cannot claim legitimacy because a minuscule minority of them show up at a meeting once every two years? Legitimacy comes from the consent of all the voters, not a self-selected few.<\/p>\n<p>The hypocrisy of upholding the values of accountability and personal responsibility when talking about the failings of other people, but practicing an unrepresentative form of politics by local-loud-mouth, completely undermines their cause.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u2019m waiting for the politician who doesn\u2019t promise me, or anyone else, anything.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m waiting for the politician who doesn\u2019t use my idealism to advance them self.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m waiting for the politician who doesn\u2019t try to pull an emotional response from me.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m waiting for the politician who is known for the laws they repealed.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m waiting for the politician who has no pitch, and who is not a salesman.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m waiting for the politician who does not seek political office.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m waiting for the politician who takes no satisfaction from governance.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m waiting for the politician who admits the evil nature of power in them self.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was passing strange when Ken Buck represented the 1% of Colorado citizens who attend Republican caucuses as 40% of all voters yesterday (4\/11\/16) on the Mark Levin show. Stranger still that Levin went right along with the charade that unelected caucus attendees represent the voters. I lost count of the number of times he [&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-7646","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\/7646","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=7646"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7650,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7646\/revisions\/7650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}