{"id":60866,"date":"2015-07-15T13:17:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T17:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60866"},"modified":"2015-07-15T13:22:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T17:22:20","slug":"trumps-lessons-for-the-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60866","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s lessons for the GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First let me say that I wouldn&#8217;t vote for Donald Trump on a bet. He has no idea how government works, much like our current President. He would be the most imperial president in history and Executive Orders would be flowing from the Oval Office by the truckloads. However, here we are, with him leading the field of GOP candidates. The reason, of course, is that he&#8217;s saying the things that Americans want to hear from a GOP candidate and he doesn&#8217;t apologize for his opinions. <\/p>\n<p>The remainder of the current crop of candidates seem to be racing to the Left of the Democrat Party instead of having their own voice and representing the majority of Americans. They want to be populist, attract the Liberal Independents instead of returning to their conservative roots.<\/p>\n<p>The Republicans left me after the 2004 elections, so I turned in my credentials and I&#8217;m now unaffiliated with any party. It looks like the national Republicans have joined the Democrat Party, though, forgetting that Americans vote for Republicans for their differences from the Democrats. Ronald Reagan was clearly different from Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush was obviously the political opposite of Al Gore.<\/p>\n<p>Americans returned Republicans to control of the Senate to prevent the types of things that we&#8217;ve seen from the White House in the last few years, but Senate Republicans are as much a rubber stamp for the President as the Reid Senate. And the GOP presidential candidates are out-Clintoning Hillary. <\/p>\n<p>If the GOP candidates are serious about winning the White House in 2016, they need to ignore the idiots at the New York Times and be themselves &#8211; represent the best things about America instead of playing to the dumbasses who elected Obama in the first place. they need to go over the heads of the media to the people like what won the election for Ronald Reagan.. They&#8217;re never going to get the media on their side, so they should stop trying &#8211; ask John McCain how that doesn&#8217;t work. <\/p>\n<p>Be a clear choice, not a coin-flip choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First let me say that I wouldn&#8217;t vote for Donald Trump on a bet. He has &hellip; <a title=\"Trump&#8217;s lessons for the GOP\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60866\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump&#8217;s lessons for the GOP<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-congress-sucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60866","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=60866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}