{"id":29940,"date":"2012-08-27T12:14:55","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T17:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29940"},"modified":"2012-08-27T11:17:02","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T16:17:02","slug":"frequently-asked-campaign-questions-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29940","title":{"rendered":"Frequently Asked Campaign Questions, Part III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first two parts of this series have been so successful (Part 1, Part 2) that it&#8217;s time to try out part 3 of this series.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/DoingFine.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"419\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Q: Did you hear that Mitt Romney made teh birther joke? \u00a0He is teh birther!<br \/>\nA: Right. \u00a0And Steven Colbert is really a Republican talk show host. \u00a0By the way, are you better off now than you were four years ago?<\/p>\n<p>Q: Isn&#8217;t Mitt Romney going to repeal &#8220;<em>Roe V. Wade<\/em>?&#8221;<br \/>\nA: Presidents don&#8217;t &#8220;repeal&#8221; SCOTUS decisions. \u00a0Now, or four years ago. \u00a0Speaking of which &#8211; are you better off now than you were four years ago?<\/p>\n<p>Q: But Romney opposes abortion rights, doesn&#8217;t he?<br \/>\nA: I&#8217;m sorry &#8211; were you unaware that Republicans largely think abortion is murder? \u00a0Just like they did four years ago. \u00a0Speaking of which &#8211; are you better off now than you were then?<\/p>\n<p>Q: Where are Mitt Romney&#8217;s tax records?<br \/>\nA: Dunno. \u00a0The fact that the IRS hasn&#8217;t slapped a huge lien on him is probably evidence enough that the real answer is &#8220;who cares, and are you better off than you were four years ago?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Q: How about teh tyrannical GOP treating the Ron Paul delegates teh way tehy did?<br \/>\nA: Well, they did better than they did four years ago. The party has every right to focus on the majority and de-emphasize a disruptive minority that hasn&#8217;t quite gotten enough clout to change everything yet. Speaking of which &#8211; are you better off now than four years ago?<\/p>\n<p>Q: How about Todd Akin?<br \/>\nA: Is he better off than he was four years ago?<\/p>\n<p>Q: Did you see teh poll that shows liberals is smarter than teh conservatives?<br \/>\nA: I asked if you&#8217;re doing better than you were four years ago<\/p>\n<p>Q: So is the GOP a big tent, or is it?<br \/>\nA:Who can afford a tent? \u00a0Are you better off than you were four years ago?<\/p>\n<p>Q: Do you think the GOP has conceded teh Latino vote?<br \/>\nA: Dunno. But a lot of Latinos are doing worse than four years ago; more undocs are leaving the US than coming here. \u00a0What does that tell you?<\/p>\n<p>Q: Ron Paul refused to endorse Mitt Romney.<br \/>\nA: Finally, something that&#8217;s the same as four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first two parts of this series have been so successful (Part 1, Part 2) that it&#8217;s time to try out part 3 of this series. Q: Did you hear that Mitt Romney made teh birther joke? \u00a0He is teh birther! A: Right. \u00a0And Steven Colbert is really a Republican talk show host. \u00a0By the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29942,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29940\/revisions\/29942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}