{"id":8644,"date":"2009-07-14T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/?p=8644"},"modified":"2024-07-09T11:57:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T16:57:00","slug":"op-ed-columnist-she-broke-the-g-o-p-and-now-she-owns-it-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/2009\/07\/14\/op-ed-columnist-she-broke-the-g-o-p-and-now-she-owns-it-nytimes-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Op-Ed Columnist &#8211; She Broke the G.O.P. and Now She Owns It &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2009\/07\/11\/opinion\/12blittspan.jpg?w=625\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Frank Rich uses his pointed righteous indignation for good intent and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/12\/opinion\/12rich.html?_r=1&amp;em\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">correctly reams Palin<\/a>&nbsp;for aiding in destroying what little prestige the GOP had left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Look, because they coddle racists and have the platform of a pack of drunken frat boys, I have no desire to ever vote Republican. That said, this country needs&nbsp;<em>at least<\/em>&nbsp;two parties to not become led by complete asshats, so someone had better get rid of these racist, anti-American Talibangelicals and get their fiscal conservative asses back in the driver&#8217;s seat over there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And Caribou Barbie ain&#8217;t what&#8217;s going to get you back on track folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Rich uses his pointed righteous indignation for good intent and&nbsp;correctly reams Palin&nbsp;for aiding in destroying what little prestige the GOP had left. Look, because they coddle racists and have the platform of a pack of drunken frat boys, I have no desire to ever vote Republican. That said, this country needs&nbsp;at least&nbsp;two parties to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8645,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644\/revisions\/8645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}