{"id":3667,"date":"2009-03-28T12:16:05","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T19:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=3667"},"modified":"2009-03-28T12:16:05","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T19:16:05","slug":"the-face-of-the-republican-party-right-this-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/03\/28\/the-face-of-the-republican-party-right-this-minute\/","title":{"rendered":"The Face of the Republican Party right this minute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As far as I can tell, this is the current face of &#8220;The Republican Party&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/justin\/rnc16johnboehner.bmp\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"74\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/justin\/rnc16ericcantor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"74\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/justin\/rnc16michellebachman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"74\" height=\"74\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/justin\/rnc16mitchmcconnell.bmp\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"74\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/justin\/rnc16newtgingrich.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"85\" height=\"85\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/justin\/rnc16dickcheney.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"85\" height=\"85\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/justin\/rnc16michaelsteele.bmp\" alt=\"\" width=\"85\" height=\"85\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/justin\/rnc16georgewbush.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"85\" height=\"85\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/justin\/rnc16sarahpalin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"85\" height=\"85\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/justin\/rnc16bobbyjindal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"85\" height=\"85\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/justin\/rnc16marksanford.bmp\" alt=\"\" width=\"85\" height=\"85\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/justin\/rnc16mittromney.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"85\" height=\"85\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/justin\/rnc16grovernorquist.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"85\" height=\"85\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/justin\/rnc16jonathankron.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"85\" height=\"85\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/justin\/rnc16rushlimbaugh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"85\" height=\"85\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/justin\/rnc16joetheplumber.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"85\" height=\"85\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Okay.\u00c2\u00a0 The\u00c2\u00a0two people I\u00c2\u00a0am most amenable to replace from this list are Michelle Bachman and Jonathan Krohn &#8212; the first the &#8220;Crazy Aunt&#8221; of the week, the second that irascible 13 year old who charmed and wowed\u00c2\u00a0the &#8220;C-PAC&#8221; meeting, and left everyone else a little bemused.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, George Bush has done nothing to remeain here, but his presence lingers and until something fills the vacuum, there he sits&#8230; similarly to Dick Cheney, except he&#8217;s been out of his bunker a bit.<\/p>\n<p>There are a good number of politicians who would be able to at any time break into this configuration, some people seeking a national profile wisely biding their time and letting this clusterfuck pass while consolidating a state or regional hold, other names from the past who are liable to stick their head out when they have a book to peddle.\u00c2\u00a0 But that will have to wait.\u00c2\u00a0 Right now, these 16 faces are your national Republican Party.\u00c2\u00a0 Good luck to them, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As far as I can tell, this is the current face of &#8220;The Republican Party&#8221;: Okay.\u00c2\u00a0 The\u00c2\u00a0two people I\u00c2\u00a0am most amenable to replace from this list are Michelle Bachman and Jonathan Krohn &#8212; the first the &#8220;Crazy Aunt&#8221; of the week, the second that irascible 13 year old who charmed and wowed\u00c2\u00a0the &#8220;C-PAC&#8221; meeting, and [&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-3667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667","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=3667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3669,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions\/3669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}