{"id":37066,"date":"2011-09-26T13:35:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T21:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=37066"},"modified":"2011-09-26T14:47:31","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T22:47:31","slug":"the-vote-for-herman-cain-was-a-protest-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=37066","title":{"rendered":"The Vote For Herman Cain Was A Protest Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On his radio show today, Dennis Prager talked about Herman Cain winning the Florida straw poll for Republican nominees for president.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis: &#8220;It&#8217;s a protest vote. We don&#8217;t like any of the nominees so we&#8217;ll vote for a guy we like. All of the Republicans like Herman Cain. He makes sense. He has common sense. He is funny. He&#8217;s down to earth. He went from nothing to great business. It&#8217;s a great story. The man has battled fourth stage cancer. He has an interesting resume.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gee, what a bunch of racists. If they wanted a protest vote, they could&#8217;ve gone elsewhere, but no, they went for Herman Cain. How does that comport with the charge of the left that conservative Republicans are racists. Must be a new group &#8212; Republican racists for blacks!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Prager&#8217;s show, Michael Medved says Rick Perry is bleeding voters who were for him because of his ideology but now are leaving him because of Perry&#8217;s position on immigration and the mandatory HPV vaccine for 13 year old girls. Also, those who thought Perry was the most electable are discouraged by his bumbling debate performances.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis notes that the Palestinian prime minister did not say the word &#8216;Jewish&#8217; once in his UN speech last week.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis praises Bibi&#8217;s speech last week at the UN as &#8220;one of the finest speeches I&#8217;ve heard.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his radio show today, Dennis Prager talked about Herman Cain winning the Florida straw poll for Republican nominees for president. Dennis: &#8220;It&#8217;s a protest vote. We don&#8217;t like any of the nominees so we&#8217;ll vote for a guy we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=37066\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,24],"tags":[27898,27899,29761,13087,13009,27897],"class_list":["post-37066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager","category-politics","tag-13-year-old-girls","tag-conservative-republicans","tag-dennis-prager","tag-michael-medved","tag-protest-vote","tag-republican-nominees-for-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}