{"id":82050,"date":"2022-05-16T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82050"},"modified":"2022-05-13T08:20:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T13:20:59","slug":"victory-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82050","title":{"rendered":"Victory?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pollsters predict this Fall will be devastating for the Democrat Party, maybe an extinction event. Republicans will win handily.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I don’t want Republicans to win. “Republicans” include Liz Cheney, Lisa Murkowski, Mitt Romney – Republicans in name only.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I want Conservatives to win. I’ve seen nothing in the polling to indicate a conservative landslide. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Replacing Democrats with RINOs is not victory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Joe hints toward a point I\u2019ve been pondering writing about for a while, now; the republican party today is painfully similar to the one we had 50 years ago; different from the Democrats in just enough ways to fight over every couple years, but not in terms of policy substance, really, anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 1960s through the mid-1970s, a conservative insurgency rooted in the principles William F Buckley enshrined in the Sharon Declaration<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They gradually took over the GOP \u2013 over the cold, dead, figurative bodies of the Rockefellers and Nixons and other moderates, basically Democrats with better suits, that had held sway since the 1930s. It started with Barry Goldwater, peaked with Ronald Reagan, and spread out into national policy via the 1994 Gingrich landslide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We need another one of those. Stat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Pollsters predict this Fall will be devastating for the Democrat Party, maybe an extinction event. Republicans will win handily. I don’t want Republicans to win. “Republicans” include Liz Cheney, Lisa Murkowski, Mitt Romney – Republicans in name only. I want Conservatives to win. I’ve seen nothing in the polling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82050","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=82050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82051,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82050\/revisions\/82051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}