{"id":503,"date":"2008-11-08T16:01:05","date_gmt":"2008-11-08T14:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=503"},"modified":"2008-11-07T19:11:31","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T17:11:31","slug":"republican-moderates-to-blame-%e2%80%93-now-that-was-predictable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=503","title":{"rendered":"“Republican Moderates to Blame” \u2013 Now THAT Was Predictable"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The rats are out of the ship, now that Senator McCain has lost.\u00a0 Although they are on all sides of the spectrum, here is an article<\/a> from CNN that demonstrates just how fast the Family Research Council has started complaining that moderates are to blame, and that Republicans should shift right.\u00a0 While anyone’s 20\/20 hindsight is less than interesting, as we discussed prior to McCain’s loss, his problem was that he tried to advance two separate strategies and alienated both of his bases.\u00a0 John McCain did not <\/strong>simply run a moderate race.<\/p>\n

Arguably, however, the reckoning will go the other way: President Bush’s administration is about as unpopular AND as far to the right as one could possibly get in America, and John McCain could not run farther from it.\u00a0 As proof, where was President Bush the last month of the campaign?\u00a0 Answer: he was hiding, keeping a low profile, as we previously discussed.\u00a0 Elizabeth Dole, a conservative, lost her seat in the Senate, and Virginia has gone blue.<\/p>\n

The fight for the soul of the Republican party is on.\u00a0 Whether they will remain right wing conservative will very much depend not only on how the electorate views the McCain loss, but how President Obama and the economy fares in the first two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The rats are out of the ship, now that Senator McCain has lost.\u00a0 Although they are on all sides of the spectrum, here is an article from CNN that demonstrates just how fast the Family Research Council has started complaining that moderates are to blame, and that Republicans should shift right.\u00a0 While anyone’s 20\/20 hindsight … Continue reading ““Republican Moderates to Blame” \u2013 Now THAT Was Predictable”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4,15],"tags":[61,74,154,199],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics","category-stupid-stuff","tag-economy","tag-religion","tag-republicans","tag-right-wing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}