{"id":615,"date":"2007-11-30T17:23:20","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T01:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godammit.com\/2007\/11\/30\/help-rate-republicans\/"},"modified":"2007-11-30T17:23:20","modified_gmt":"2007-12-01T01:23:20","slug":"help-rate-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/help-rate-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Rate Republicans!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"duncecap.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/duncecap.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image616\" height=\"96\" alt=\"duncecap.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/duncecap.jpg?fit=640%2C96\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was transfixed by the silly Republican debate, this week.&nbsp;\u00a0 The obsession with immigrants was particularly stupid and tragic. What a pathetic distraction!&nbsp;\u00a0 I am left with a need to determine who is more loathsome, Mitt Romney or Fred Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>I know it\u2019s a pointless exercise but I don\u2019t care. Can you help? I am using shameless phoniness and hypocrisy as the criteria. I keep flip-flopping between Romney and Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>Here is my provisional rating of hatefulness, in descending order.<\/p>\n<p>Mitt Romney<br \/>\nFred Thompson<br \/>\nRudy Giuliani<br \/>\nTom Tancredo<br \/>\nJohn McCain<br \/>\nMike Huckabee<br \/>\nRon Paul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was transfixed by the silly Republican debate, this week.&nbsp;\u00a0 The obsession with immigrants was particularly stupid and tragic. What a pathetic distraction!&nbsp;\u00a0 I am left with a need to determine who is more loathsome, Mitt Romney or Fred Thompson. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/help-rate-republicans\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-9V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}