{"id":31082,"date":"2018-07-18T14:39:06","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T14:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31082"},"modified":"2018-07-18T14:39:06","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T14:39:06","slug":"comey-joins-the-partisan-political-fray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31082","title":{"rendered":"Comey joins the partisan political fray"},"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\/2018\/07\/comey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31083\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/comey-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/comey-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/comey-768x448.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/comey.jpg 789w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, my. There&#8217;s something vaguely weird about a former FBI director becoming a partisan warrior on the eve of this year&#8217;s midterm congressional election.<\/p>\n<p>James Comey, whom Donald J. Trump fired as FBI boss in May 2017, now says the following: \u201cAll who believe in this country\u2019s values must vote for Democrats this fall,\u201d he wrote. \u201cPolicy differences don\u2019t matter right now. History has its eyes on us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A part of me wants to embrace Comey&#8217;s view. However, I wish the embattled former FBI director would have stayed clear of direct partisan battling.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s widely known that Comey is a longtime <em>Republican<\/em>. He said he didn&#8217;t vote in the 2016 election, preferring to maintain some semblance of objectivity as he did his job as leader of the nation&#8217;s premier law enforcement agency.<\/p>\n<p>Now, though, all bets are off.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/james-comey-urges-americans-to-vote-democrat-this-fall-policy-differences-dont-matter-right-now\/\">Comey already<\/a> is an inviting target among conservative mainstream media and die-hard Donald Trump loyalists. They have hurled a barrage of insults and accusations at Comey in the wake of his memoir in which he declares that Trump is &#8220;morally unfit&#8221; to serve as president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>So, get ready for the bombardment to resume. It won&#8217;t be pretty.<\/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>Oh, my. There&#8217;s something vaguely weird about a former FBI director becoming a partisan warrior on the eve of this year&#8217;s midterm congressional election. James Comey, whom Donald J. Trump fired as FBI boss in May 2017, now says the following: \u201cAll who believe in this country\u2019s values must vote for Democrats this fall,\u201d he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31082\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Comey joins the partisan political fray<\/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],"tags":[7490,1424,7885,6242,7093],"class_list":["post-31082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2018-election","tag-donald-trump","tag-fbi-director","tag-james-comey","tag-russia-probe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31082","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=31082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31084,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31082\/revisions\/31084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}