{"id":10947,"date":"2015-09-10T12:37:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T12:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10947"},"modified":"2015-09-10T12:37:42","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T12:37:42","slug":"trump-dishes-out-another-insult-poll-standing-to-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10947","title":{"rendered":"Trump dishes out another insult &#8230; poll standing to rise?"},"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\/09\/carly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10814\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/carly-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"carly\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/carly-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/carly-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/carly.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has added another Republican presidential primary rival to his list of personal insult victims.<\/p>\n<p>And, hey &#8230; it happens to be the only woman in the field of 17 GOP candidates.<\/p>\n<p>On the receiving end of a Trump insult is Carly Fiorina. Trump decided to make fun of her physical appearance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/trump-mocks-fiorina%e2%80%99s-physical-appearance-look-at-that-face\/ar-AAe7OPg?li=BBgzzfc\">Look at that face<\/a>,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?&#8221; Trump reportedly bellowed while watching his Republican presidential rival on the news. &#8220;I mean, she&#8217;s a woman, and I&#8217;m not s&#8217;posedta say bad things, but really, folks, come on. Are we serious?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>OK, here&#8217;s the point of this brief post: If the public response follows form, Trump well might see another spike in his poll numbers. That&#8217;s how it&#8217;s gone for this guy: He says something patently nasty, the victim of the barb responds &#8230; and Trump gets a poll boost.<\/p>\n<p>My question now is this: What in the world has become of American voters, most notably Republican Party primary voters who think it&#8217;s all right to be personally insulting?<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t the Golden Rule apply any longer? Do we no longer seek to treat others the way we&#8217;d insist that they treat us?<\/p>\n<p>And what about the notion among some of the more conservative voters out there that the United States is a &#8220;Christian nation&#8221; comprising people of deep faith who are committed to religious principles?<\/p>\n<p>Are these\u00a0same folks now going to applaud Donald Trump for tossing\u00a0aside &#8220;political correctness&#8221;?<\/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>Donald Trump has added another Republican presidential primary rival to his list of personal insult victims. And, hey &#8230; it happens to be the only woman in the field of 17 GOP candidates. On the receiving end of a Trump insult is Carly Fiorina. Trump decided to make fun of her physical appearance. &#8220;Look at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10947\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump dishes out another insult &#8230; poll standing to rise?<\/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":[870,975,1424,5359,4232,5457],"class_list":["post-10947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-carly-fiorina","tag-christian-nation","tag-donald-trump","tag-golden-rule","tag-sexism","tag-trumps-poll-standing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10947","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=10947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10948,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10947\/revisions\/10948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}