{"id":37428,"date":"2011-10-19T12:17:16","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T20:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=37428"},"modified":"2011-10-19T12:19:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T20:19:53","slug":"republican-debate-not-an-uplifting-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=37428","title":{"rendered":"Republican Debate &#8216;Not An Uplifting Evening&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: &#8220;The Rick Perry attack on Mitt Romney&#8230; You hired an illegal years ago. If that&#8217;s the way he feels he&#8217;s going to win an election, let me find a petty scandal, then I&#8217;ve lost respect for him. That&#8217;s bottom of the barrel tactics. It&#8217;s a near impossibility in domestic life in the United States that someone won&#8217;t get into your life who&#8217;s not in the United States legally. What do you do when you hire somebody to tend your garden in the back yard? Show me your American citizenship?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve made it impossible for normal people to run for office. The media has done this. This is what it plays up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no room in these debates for vision. It&#8217;s all policy. You end up with people with little vision and a series of little policies. Mitt Romney has a 59-point plan for the economy. What American is going to read it? This is not the way it was. Watch the Kennedy-Nixon debate. You realize how substantive it was and how non-wonky it was. Now it is people up there citing data.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: &#8220;The Rick Perry attack on Mitt Romney&#8230; You hired an illegal years ago. If that&#8217;s the way he feels he&#8217;s going to win an election, let me find a petty scandal, then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=37428\">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":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37428","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=37428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37432,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37428\/revisions\/37432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}