{"id":25424,"date":"2018-06-23T10:19:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T15:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=25424"},"modified":"2018-06-23T15:19:19","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T20:19:19","slug":"bimbos-himbos-and-limbos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=25424","title":{"rendered":"Bimbos, Himbos and Limbos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Limbos, of course, refers to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/Diogenes\/NotEudora04\/limbaughsbastard.htm\">Limbaugh listeners<\/a> who have become as mindless in their enthusiasm for Donald Trump as they have been for the man from Cape Girardeau, Missouri. With that has his hometown I can&#8217;t help but wonder if he imagined himself to be a super hero when he was a kid.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vignette.wikia.nocookie.net\/glee\/images\/b\/b6\/No_Capes_The_Incredibles_3.gif\/revision\/latest?cb=20140603224911\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I just learned that William F. Buckley&#8217;s intellectual heir, George Will, has left the Republican Party and urged all voters to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/vote-against-the-gop-this-november\/2018\/06\/22\/a6378306-7575-11e8-b4b7-308400242c2e_story.html?noredirect=on&#038;utm_term=.2bdccdf69d6c\">vote against Republicans.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Better late than never George. I hope he would consider me an exception especially as I had the foresight to see what was happening to <strong>The Party of Lincoln <\/strong>thirty years ago and tried to do something about it over and over again.  I began threatening to return to it a couple years ago for the party&#8217;s redemption not for revenge. I found <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=6046\">a reminiscence <\/a>about how I became a Republican written a few years ago in the blog. As with the Red Plan I find a gallant battle hard to stop fighting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Limbos, of course, refers to the Limbaugh listeners who have become as mindless in their enthusiasm for Donald Trump as they have been for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,31,72,133,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-congress","category-gods-own-party","category-moderation","category-pete-stauber-for-congress","category-trump-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=25424"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25434,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25424\/revisions\/25434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}