{"id":6474,"date":"2012-03-05T12:27:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T17:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=6474"},"modified":"2017-02-27T20:43:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T01:43:55","slug":"1-in-10-american-adults-now-have-a-more-positive-impression-of-the-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=6474","title":{"rendered":"1 in 10 American adults now have a more positive impression of the GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you wanted to know who the GOP was bending over backward to win over for the past two decades <a href=\"httphttp:\/\/firstread.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2012\/03\/04\/10578249-nbcwsj-poll-primary-season-takes-corrosive-toll-on-gop-and-its-candidates:\/\/\">here is the answer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Forty percent of all adults say the GOP contest so far has made them feel less favorable about the party, while <strong>12 percent say they now have a more favorable impression<\/strong>. Forty-seven percent say it&#8217;s had no impact.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For this twelve percent all the RINO&#8217;s (moderates) have been hounded out by the Limbaughs, the Becks, the O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s and the Norquists.  <\/p>\n<p>But echoing the dimwitted phrase of my youthful cohort when they were in college in the 1970&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cincinnati.com\/article\/20120302\/NEWS0106\/303020157\/Santorum-m-not-Tweedledum-Tweedledee-?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE\">Rick Santorum thinks its just ducky<\/a> that the nation&#8217;s two major political parties reach for the extreems rather than the center to guarantee that they aren&#8217;t just &#8220;Tweedle dum and Tweedle dee&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn3.google.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSVPByjMYn1RziGQJ3kNkJL19Vw_jwYvW7sIkuiErMMWVYPS6L3\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And of course, Tweedle dumbest has helped pushed women to favor Obama over Romney 55 to 37 percent by calling women like my wife &#8220;sluts,&#8221; &#8220;prostitutes,&#8221; and asking them to post porno videos&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Oh but I forgot. After his sponsors started departing (it was up to seven this morning) Rush apologized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you wanted to know who the GOP was bending over backward to win over for the past two decades here is the answer:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gods-own-party","category-prez-race-2112"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6474","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=6474"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20200,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6474\/revisions\/20200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}