{"id":1040,"date":"2016-05-05T11:34:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T17:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2016-05-05T12:36:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T18:36:15","slug":"1040","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/?p=1040","title":{"rendered":"What the GOPe really thinks&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/picture031-e1415906197153-273x300.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-817\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-817\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/picture031-e1415906197153-273x300-273x300.jpg\" alt=\"picture031-e1415906197153-273x300\" width=\"273\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>You should really take a few minutes to read this op-ed by David Ross Meyers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2016\/05\/03\/any-republican-who-thinks-its-better-to-elect-trump-than-hillary-needs-their-head-examined.html?intcmp=hphz03\">A message for my fellow Republicans: If you back Trump you will not be trusted again<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not suggesting this because I agree with what he says. \u00a0You need to read it because it is one of the best examples of just how disconnected the Party Leadership\u00a0<em>really<\/em> is from it&#8217;s voter base I have seen in a very long time. \u00a0It also shows just how much contempt with which the &#8220;political class&#8221; holds us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You should really take a few minutes to read this op-ed by David Ross Meyers. A message for my fellow Republicans: If you back Trump you will not be trusted again I&#8217;m not suggesting this because I agree with what &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/?p=1040\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"A must read op-ed by David Meyers. It shows the contempt and out-of-touch attitude of the RNC. #tcot","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[22,153,49,50,51,53,56,57,68,88,99,100,203,248,115,202],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-current-news","category-politics","tag-tcot","tag-cruz","tag-culture-2","tag-culture-war","tag-current-events","tag-democrats","tag-election","tag-election-2016","tag-government","tag-media","tag-political-correctness","tag-politics-2","tag-republicans","tag-rnc","tag-tea-party","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5yCHs-1040","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions\/1042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}