{"id":14365,"date":"2014-11-05T19:41:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T02:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=14365"},"modified":"2014-11-05T19:41:44","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T02:41:44","slug":"going-after-the-earring-tattooed-electorate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2014\/11\/05\/going-after-the-earring-tattooed-electorate\/","title":{"rendered":"going after the earring tattooed electorate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This election is not only a repudiation of Obama, but also the Clintons, and what the people are seeing is there is no difference between the Clinton Democrats and the Obama Democrats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So goes Rand Paul (paraphrasing here) upon the victory of Mitch McConnell in particular, and Republicans in general, posturing himself with the right now considered &#8220;inevitable&#8221; (but who knows?) Democratic nomination of Hillary Clinton and his sights on the Republican nomination.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rand Paul,&#8221; asks the NBC News guy, &#8220;today your father tweeted&#8230; &#8216;Republicans have Senate means NeoCon Win means NeoCon War means Boots on the Ground.&#8221; (again, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonPaul\/status\/529809020777795584\">paraphrase<\/a>, but you get the idea).\u00c2\u00a0 The caveat of &#8220;You don&#8217;t speak for your father, but &#8211;&#8221; and then the issue of Republican foreign policy splits and &#8220;What do you see as the Republican Brand moving forward?&#8221; (Brand&#8230; take a swig of your favorite alcoholic beverage when political pundits bring up party branding.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Republican Party will be reaching out and attracting people with earrings and without earrings, with tattoos and without tattoos.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rand Paul, picking up the mantle form his father &#8212; and tilling the same following he picked up from his father back when he was tilling the same media sphere &#8212; you know, pre-Senate nomination&#8230; Alex Jones and the like&#8230; and dodging the question as the Republicans move forward to align behind&#8230; oh&#8230; Jeb Bush?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This election is not only a repudiation of Obama, but also the Clintons, and what the people are seeing is there is no difference between the Clinton Democrats and the Obama Democrats.&#8221; So goes Rand Paul (paraphrasing here) upon the victory of Mitch McConnell in particular, and Republicans in general, posturing himself with the right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14366,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14365\/revisions\/14366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}