There is something I do not particularly understand.<\/p>\n
Rudy Giuliani unveiled his “12 Commandments”.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a list of boiler plate Republican positions, appropriate enough platform for a Republican nominating run.\u00c2\u00a0 I notice some eyes piqued at its lack of mention of Iraq, but I can easily explain that by pointing to one of the differences between the Democratic and Republican debates: the Democrats are required by their primary constituents to explain how they would get US troops out of Iraq;\u00c2\u00a0 the Republicans are required by their Primary constituents to explain how they would get US troops into Iran.<\/p>\n
A more interesting puzzlement, at least in my eyes, is simply: How presumptuous is this?\u00c2\u00a0 12 Commandments???\u00c2\u00a0 That’s two more than god freaking GOD!\u00c2\u00a0 Is this going to get to the religious right?\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t see how.\u00c2\u00a0 Nor do I see how it would get to a sort of sidebar libertarian or neo-con (two different things, yes) fundamentally secularist voter that Giuliana might be pursuing in lieu of the religious right voter.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 (Note that he came out as a pro-choice candidate to those ends). There is something I do not particularly understand. Rudy Giuliani unveiled his “12 Commandments”.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a list of boiler plate Republican positions, appropriate enough platform for a Republican nominating run.\u00c2\u00a0 I notice some eyes piqued at its lack of mention of Iraq, but I can easily explain that by pointing to one of the […]<\/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-2359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359","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=2359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI am reminded of the Mel Brooks written Moses bit<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"