{"id":10742,"date":"2015-08-28T20:59:04","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T20:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10742"},"modified":"2015-08-28T20:59:04","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T20:59:04","slug":"name-calling-becomes-a-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10742","title":{"rendered":"Name-calling becomes a hit"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/insult.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10743\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/insult-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"insult\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/insult-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/insult.jpg 554w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Republicans are becoming the party of name-callers.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s run a little tabulation.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Lindsey Graham called Donald Trump a &#8220;jackass.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump has called Graham, former Govs. Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney &#8220;losers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump also has said that every official in the U.S. government is &#8220;stupid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>House Speaker John Boehner has chimed in with a &#8220;jackass&#8221; epithet hurled at Sen. Ted Cruz.<\/p>\n<p>I know I&#8217;ve missed some, maybe a lot. But these come to mind immediately.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s up here? Are the candidates for the presidency getting under each other&#8217;s skin?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve lost count of the bad names Sen. John McCain has tossed at folks who disagree with him. Then again, he&#8217;s not running for president this time around.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll give the current GOP bunch this much credit: At least they aren&#8217;t tossing out f-bombs, at least not publicly.<\/p>\n<p>It was then-Vice President Dick Cheney&#8217;s dubious honor\u00a0to reveal his potty mouth when, during a Senate floor debate years ago, he told Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy to go f*** himself.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, just think: The\u00a0presidential campaign is just getting warmed up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>Republicans are becoming the party of name-callers. Let&#8217;s run a little tabulation. Sen. Lindsey Graham called Donald Trump a &#8220;jackass.&#8221; Trump has called Graham, former Govs. Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney &#8220;losers.&#8221; Trump also has said that every official in the U.S. government is &#8220;stupid.&#8221; House Speaker John Boehner has chimed in with a &#8220;jackass&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10742\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Name-calling becomes a hit<\/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":[13,14],"tags":[1380,1424,5400,2429,2523,2798,3101,5399,4537],"class_list":["post-10742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-dick-cheney","tag-donald-trump","tag-f-bomb","tag-jeb-bush","tag-john-boehner","tag-lindsey-graham","tag-mitt-romney","tag-name-calling","tag-ted-cruz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10742","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=10742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10744,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10742\/revisions\/10744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}