{"id":104,"date":"2013-06-06T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/06\/06\/this-represents-gop-outreach"},"modified":"2013-06-06T15:34:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T15:34:00","slug":"this-represents-gop-outreach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"This represents GOP outreach?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>E.W. Jackson is running to become lieutenant governor of the 12th-most populous state in the United States of America.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s the nominee of a party dominated by white males. He\u2019s an African-American clergyman.<\/p>\n<p>I submit that if this the GOP\u2019s idea of outreach in an effort to broaden its base, it has just taken a gigantic step \u2013 make that many gigantic steps \u2013 backward.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2013\/06\/05\/republican-candidate-evolution-false-because-chimps-cant-talk\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2013\/06\/05\/republican-candidate-evolution-false-because-chimps-cant-talk\/\">http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2013\/06\/05\/republican-candidate-evolution-false-because-chimps-cant-talk\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The stuff that\u2019s pouring out of this gentleman\u2019s mouth is simply stunning, as the attached link illustrates.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m rendered virtually speechless by the rants put out by this individual. <\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s another link that explains how Jackson believes yoga leads to satanic possession:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/06\/05\/ew-jackson-yoga-satanic-possession_n_3392386.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/06\/05\/ew-jackson-yoga-satanic-possession_n_3392386.html\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/06\/05\/ew-jackson-yoga-satanic-possession_n_3392386.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jackson also has said President Obama views the world through a \u201cMuslim perspective,\u201d and has compared Planned Parenthood to the Ku Klux Klan.<\/p>\n<p>This, folks, represents precisely the wrong kind of outreach for a once-great political party. <\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E.W. Jackson is running to become lieutenant governor of the 12th-most populous state in the United States of America. He\u2019s the nominee of a party dominated by white males. He\u2019s an African-American clergyman. I submit that if this the GOP\u2019s idea of outreach in an effort to broaden its base, it has just taken a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=104\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This represents GOP outreach?<\/span> <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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}