{"id":216,"date":"2006-05-09T09:38:22","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T14:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=216"},"modified":"2006-07-19T16:00:42","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T21:00:42","slug":"will-democratic-demons-sabotage-democratic-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=216","title":{"rendered":"Will Democratic Demons sabotage Democratic Hopes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thomas Lifson editor of &#8220;The American Thinker&#8221; writes <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/articles.php?article_id=5482\"><strong>this short piece<\/strong><\/a><strong> on the anger of the Democratic Party&#8217;s &#8220;secularist fundamentalists.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Over the weekend I met a former State GOP Poobah at my brother&#8217;s home. I told her husband that I had changed parties; that I had once been a bad Republican and was now a bad Democrat. Lifson&#8217;s article helps explain why I&#8217;ll be a bad Democrat.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;ve always narrowed my eyes and looked with suspicion on usism and fringe politics. (of course that was before moderates and centrists were pushed to the fringe of American politics) Here&#8217;s an old column of mine which tries to get that point across: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/Diogenes\/NotEudora04\/limbaughsbastard.htm\"><em><strong>&#8220;Limbaugh&#8217;s Bastard Child.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Lifson editor of &#8220;The American Thinker&#8221; writes this short piece on the anger of the Democratic Party&#8217;s &#8220;secularist fundamentalists.&#8221; Over the weekend I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,31,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}