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Reince Priebus is painting the American electorate with a pretty broad brush these days.<\/p>\n

The Republican Party’s national chairman says “people don’t care” about the controversies surrounding the GOP’s presumptive presidential nominee.<\/p>\n

I beg to differ, Mr. Chairman.<\/p>\n

“People” do<\/em> care. Many of us — such as yours truly — care a lot<\/em>.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/msnbc\/rnc-chairman-reince-priebus-donald-trumps-controversies-people-just-dont-care?cid=sm_fb_msnbc<\/a><\/p>\n

— Tax returns that Trump refuses to disclose to the public?<\/em><\/p>\n

— Statements attributed to him about women?<\/em><\/p>\n

— The myriad lies he’s told while campaigning for president?<\/em><\/p>\n

— The ridiculous story about Trump posing as a publicist to promote himself?<\/em><\/p>\n

Yeah, those things matter, Mr. Chairman. They speak to the character of the man who wants to become president of the United States.<\/p>\n

I won’t get too far into this blog post without mentioning that Trump isn’t the only candidate with “issues” to address. Hillary Rodham Clinton has her own and they, too, are bothersome.<\/p>\n

The issue at the moment deals with the huge speaking fees she collected — allegedly from Goldman Sachs .<\/p>\n

The other\u00a0matters — Benghazi, the email controversy — are being dealt with by a Republican-led Congress that is still on the hunt for something to derail her campaign.<\/p>\n

The RNC chairman shouldn’t give his party’s presumed nominee a pass because of some belief that “people” don’t care about the things that are dogging his campaign.<\/p>\n

I dislike saying I speak for others. I am fairly confident, though, in presuming that the nation is loaded with inquisitive voters who want these issues settled.<\/p>\n

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Reince Priebus is painting the American electorate with a pretty broad brush these days. The Republican Party’s national chairman says “people don’t care” about the controversies surrounding the GOP’s presumptive presidential nominee. I beg to differ, Mr. Chairman. “People” do care. Many of us — such as yours truly — care a lot. http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/msnbc\/rnc-chairman-reince-priebus-donald-trumps-controversies-people-just-dont-care?cid=sm_fb_msnbc — … Continue reading ‘People’ do care about these things, Mr. Chairman<\/span> →<\/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":[589,1424,1574,1941,2139,3878,3967],"class_list":["post-14674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-benghazi","tag-donald-trump","tag-emails","tag-gop","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-reince-priebus","tag-rnc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14674","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=14674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14676,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14674\/revisions\/14676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}