{"id":39627,"date":"2012-01-09T14:06:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T22:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=39627"},"modified":"2012-01-12T10:21:04","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T18:21:04","slug":"why-dont-democrats-need-to-appeal-to-the-middle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=39627","title":{"rendered":"Why Don&#8217;t Democrats Need To Appeal To The Middle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: &#8220;Republicans have to nominate somebody who will appeal to the middle but Democrats don&#8217;t. You never hear that among the Democrats &#8212; who&#8217;s going to appeal to the independent and the center? President Obama can run for re-election as the most divisive president in terms of rhetoric. There has never been a president who has divided the country as clearly and as intentionally as this president. There is the rich and the rest of us and they are the problem. I&#8217;ve never heard an American group scapegoated. I&#8217;ve heard people blamed for their values.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Blaming an economic group has caused more genocidal actions than blaming a race or religion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m disappointed in Newt Gingrich. The mode of attack [on Mitt Romney for his work at Bain Capital]. The films he&#8217;s making, the films he&#8217;s supporting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no economic system other than dictatorship that can ensure no individual economic tragedy. Newt Gingrich, Mr Conservative, is now Mr Obama in rhetoric.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mukome posts to YouTube: Obama appealing to middle: Rahm, Daley, Lew, Geithner, Bernanke, LaHood, Kagan, Hillary, Robert Gates, Rick Warren, record deportations, extending Bush tax cuts, surge in Afghanistan, drone war in five countries, charter schools, federal wage freeze, Simpson-Bowles, offshore drilling, over-ruling EPA on smog, over-ruling FDA on Plan B, indefinite detentions, the list goes on and on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: &#8220;Republicans have to nominate somebody who will appeal to the middle but Democrats don&#8217;t. You never hear that among the Democrats &#8212; who&#8217;s going to appeal to the independent and the center? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=39627\">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":[1569,4],"tags":[28698,29761,28697,28699,27778,23795],"class_list":["post-39627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-dennis-prager","tag-bain-capital","tag-dennis-prager","tag-economic-tragedy","tag-genocidal-actions","tag-mitt-romney","tag-newt-gingrich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39627","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=39627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39747,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39627\/revisions\/39747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}