{"id":407,"date":"2006-06-26T07:41:45","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T12:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=407"},"modified":"2006-07-19T16:31:04","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T21:31:04","slug":"rinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=407","title":{"rendered":"Rinos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After fundamentalists took over the Republican Party they began redefining old Republicans out of it by derisively calling them Rino&#8217;s: &#8220;Republicans in name only.&#8221; In other words, what had once been perfectly respectable Republicanism was treated as heretical including such time tested libertarian ideals\u00c2\u00a0as keeping the government out of its citizen&#8217;s personal lives and shunning deficit spending and a reluctance to go to war where we had no business being.<\/p>\n<p>As a past Rino I take heart in seeing other Republicans turn their backs, on the party or better yet, <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/world\/story\/0,,1805330,00.html\">turn their horns toward the party<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After fundamentalists took over the Republican Party they began redefining old Republicans out of it by derisively calling them Rino&#8217;s: &#8220;Republicans in name only.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,45,31,39,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407"}],"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=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}