{"id":77189,"date":"2021-03-16T06:12:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T11:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77189"},"modified":"2021-03-16T06:12:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T11:12:39","slug":"branding-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77189","title":{"rendered":"Branding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The RINOs and Never Trumpers in the Republican establishment hated Donald Trump and did everything they could to obstruct, undermine and sandbag him.\u00a0 Still do, except when it comes to fundraising.\u00a0 Then, they want to use his name and photo to beg Americans to send them money, because they know how popular he is with the rank-and-file.<\/p><p>Donald Trump understands the importance of a name-brand.\u00a0 His name is on his hotels for a reason.\u00a0 President Trump asked the RNC to stop using his brand, the party refused citing a First Amendment right because he&#8217;s a public figure, and the President rebuked them.\u00a0\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/08\/no-more-money-rinos-donald-trump-statementdonations-directed-super-pac-dispute-rnc\/\" target=\"_blank\">No more money for RINOs<\/a>.<\/p><p>They shouldn&#8217;t have needed rebuking.\u00a0 They should have had enough honor to drop his name and image.\u00a0 They should have proudly used RINOs like Mitt Romney, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, since those are the people they&#8217;re actually hoping to get elected.\u00a0 Using President Trump&#8217;s name to raise money for candidates who don&#8217;t hold his beliefs is deceptive.\u00a0 It&#8217;s bait-and-switch, false advertising, consumer fraud, lying and pretty much standard procedure for RINOs and Never-Trumpers.<\/p><p>I hope President Trump does run as a third party candidate. Can&#8217;t wait.<\/p><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m personally going to go with &#8220;focus ASAP around candidates who can straddle the divide &#8211; DeSantis, Noem, whomever &#8211; and get back to the business of trying to save Western Civilization. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RINOs and Never Trumpers in the Republican establishment hated Donald Trump and did everything they could to obstruct, undermine and sandbag him.\u00a0 Still do, except when it comes to fundraising.\u00a0 Then, they want to use his name and photo to beg Americans to send them money, because they know how popular he is with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77189","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=77189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77190,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77189\/revisions\/77190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}