{"id":1356,"date":"2004-03-04T14:29:59","date_gmt":"2004-03-04T19:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1356.html"},"modified":"2004-03-04T14:29:59","modified_gmt":"2004-03-04T19:29:59","slug":"republicans-take-civility-to-a-whole-new-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/republicans-take-civility-to-a-whole-new-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans take civility to a whole new level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/week_2004_02_29.html#002630\">Josh Marshall<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2004_02_29_atrios_archive.html#107841505987236310\">Atrios<\/a> are highlighting one of the more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktok.com\/cc-common\/feeds\/view.php?feed_id=135&#038;feed=\/local.html&#038;instance=1&#038;article_id=1559\">disgusting GOP rants<\/a> I&#8217;ve seen in a while.<\/p>\n<p>As a radio station in Oklahoma explained:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Republican Congressman Tom Cole claims a vote against the re-election of President Bush is like supporting Adolph Hitler during World War Two. It&#8217;s what he said recently before a meeting of Canadian County Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Representative Tom Cole might have stirred up Democrats by saying a vote against the re-election of President Bush is like supporting Adolph Hitler during World War Two. Or supporting Osama bin Laden now. &#8220;If George Bush loses the election, Osama bin Laden wins the election.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s great to hear that the Republicans are intent on running an honorable, issue-driven campaign that appeals to the public&#8217;s sense of integrity and character.<\/p>\n<p>As Marshall put it, &#8220;Presumably, we need to vote for President Bush because otherwise we&#8217;d be saddled with those hateful, hating, hating, hating Democrats who have no understanding of what civility in politics is all about.&#8221; Exactly.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the GOP can remind us all again about how the Dems are running a campaign based on &#8220;anger&#8221; and &#8220;bitterness,&#8221; while the Republicans have embraced a positive message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Marshall and Atrios are highlighting one of the more disgusting GOP rants I&#8217;ve seen in a while. As a radio station in Oklahoma explained: Republican Congressman Tom Cole claims a vote against the re-election of President Bush is like supporting Adolph Hitler during World War Two. It&#8217;s what he said recently before a meeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}