{"id":16001,"date":"2016-07-18T23:13:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T23:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16001"},"modified":"2016-07-18T23:13:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T23:13:07","slug":"republicans-are-looking-like-uh-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16001","title":{"rendered":"Republicans are looking like &#8230; uh &#8230; Democrats!"},"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\/2016\/07\/APphoto_GOP-2016-Convention3-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16003\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/APphoto_GOP-2016-Convention3-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A woman checks out a tee shirt at a merchandise booth outside Quicken Loans Arena during first day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Monday, July 18, 2016. (AP Photo\/Matt Rourke)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/APphoto_GOP-2016-Convention3-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/APphoto_GOP-2016-Convention3-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/APphoto_GOP-2016-Convention3-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/APphoto_GOP-2016-Convention3-1.jpg 1688w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first day of the Republican Party&#8217;s presidential nominating convention has gotten off to a start no one might have seen coming.<\/p>\n<p>Those stodgy, staid, stuffy Republicans are looking like Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>More to the point, they&#8217;re looking like Democrats of Yesteryear, back when the Democrats used to fight among themselves, convention delegates walking off the floor.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP started its Donald J. Trump nominating convention by having a knock-down floor fight initiated by the anti-Trump forces. They wanted to change the rules to allow a roll-call vote that could have allowed delegates to abandon their obligation to voting for the frontrunner.<\/p>\n<p>They didn&#8217;t clear the hurdle. The convention chair declared the voice vote to have gone to the Trumpkins, and the move died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats in 1968 and again in 1972 used to fight like that. Republicans, meanwhile, conducted orderly conventions those years &#8230; and went on to win the presidential election. The 1980 Democratic convention had its share of drama, too, with Ted Kennedy&#8217;s forces fighting to change the rules, only to lose that fight to the Jimmy Carter juggernaut. That election turned out badly for Democrats, too.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Democrats are going to be mild-mannered. Republicans are going to fight among themselves.<\/p>\n<p>What does any of this portend for the fall election?<\/p>\n<p>I am not going there. I&#8217;ve tried to predict political outcomes for too long without success.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll just sit back and watch the theatrics.<\/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>The first day of the Republican Party&#8217;s presidential nominating convention has gotten off to a start no one might have seen coming. Those stodgy, staid, stuffy Republicans are looking like Democrats. More to the point, they&#8217;re looking like Democrats of Yesteryear, back when the Democrats used to fight among themselves, convention delegates walking off the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16001\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Republicans are looking like &#8230; uh &#8230; Democrats!<\/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":[1337,1424,1941,5647,2491,4538],"class_list":["post-16001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-democratic-party","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop","tag-gop-convention","tag-jimmy-carter","tag-ted-kennedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16001","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=16001"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16004,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16001\/revisions\/16004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}