{"id":23081,"date":"2011-04-26T11:49:36","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T15:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23081"},"modified":"2011-04-26T11:50:54","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T15:50:54","slug":"oh-sorry-gop-i-thought-you-were-serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23081","title":{"rendered":"Oh, sorry, GOP, I thought you were serious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got an email today from Reince Priebus, the RNC Chairman asking me to take part in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gop.com\/PresidentialStrawPoll\/PresidentialStrawPoll.htm\">a straw poll at their website<\/a>. I thought it was nice that they asked me to tell them who I think the candidate should be next year.<\/p>\n<p>I saw at the bottom of the page that there was a bunch of campaign contribution stuff &#8211; I haven&#8217;t given money to the RNC since 2004 because they act like Democrats and if I won&#8217;t give money to Democrats, why should I give money to people who act like Democrats? Well, I skipped over the contribution part and clicked to send my choice for president. <\/p>\n<p>I got an error message rejecting my choice because I didn&#8217;t fill out the &#8220;required&#8221; fields. The required fields were the contribution part.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, GOP, I thought you were serious about wanting to know which candidates would earn my vote and contributions. I&#8217;m still not giving you any money, until you come up to my standards and quit wallowing in the Democrats&#8217; mudhole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got an email today from Reince Priebus, the RNC Chairman asking me to take part &hellip; <a title=\"Oh, sorry, GOP, I thought you were serious\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23081\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oh, sorry, GOP, I thought you were serious<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[478],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-none"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}