{"id":8526,"date":"2006-09-21T12:33:03","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T16:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8526.html"},"modified":"2006-09-21T12:33:03","modified_gmt":"2006-09-21T16:33:03","slug":"i-have-flat-out-been-ticked-at-republicans-for-the-past-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/i-have-flat-out-been-ticked-at-republicans-for-the-past-two-years\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I have flat-out been ticked at Republicans for the past two years&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[tag]Focus on the Family[\/tag]&#8217;s James Dobson was in Pittsburgh yesterday for a &#8220;Stand for the Family Rally&#8221; to help rally support for Republicans, most notably, Sen. Rick Santorum (R). Dobson&#8217;s message to the religious-right activists in attendance, however, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/06264\/723748-53.stm\">wasn&#8217;t exactly inspirational<\/a>. (thanks to Rege for the tip)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Standing before an enormous American flag in Mellon Arena, conservative evangelical activist [tag]James Dobson[\/tag] told thousands of supporters he was deeply disappointed in the nation&#8217;s Republican leadership, but that the nation&#8217;s future depended on re-electing them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have flat-out been ticked at Republicans for the past two years,&#8221; he said, to some applause from a crowd that arena security estimated at around 3,000. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>He accused the Republican House and Senate of &#8220;sitting on their hands&#8221; on key conservative social issues. He said they had squandered a growing public sentiment that abortion should be limited or banned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dr. Jim can be quite a cheerleader, can&#8217;t he? Republicans have done little but annoy him since the religious right delivered for the GOP in &#8217;04 &#8212; but activists should schlep to the polls in November anyway. As Dobson put it, &#8220;Whether or not the Republicans deserve the power they were given, the alternatives are downright frightening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, Dobson has a little more experience than I do in the area of motivational speaking, but I think I like his message more than the RNC might. &#8220;Vote Republican &#8212; despite the fact that they&#8217;ve been a disappointing letdown that refuses to work our key issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe, if we&#8217;re really lucky, Dobson can travel to other key states and share a similar message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[tag]Focus on the Family[\/tag]&#8217;s James Dobson was in Pittsburgh yesterday for a &#8220;Stand for the Family Rally&#8221; to help rally support for Republicans, most notably, Sen. Rick Santorum (R). Dobson&#8217;s message to the religious-right activists in attendance, however, wasn&#8217;t exactly inspirational. (thanks to Rege for the tip) Standing before an enormous American flag in Mellon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8526","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}