{"id":32762,"date":"2018-10-12T20:34:08","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T20:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32762"},"modified":"2018-10-12T20:36:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T20:36:09","slug":"you-want-negativity-try-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32762","title":{"rendered":"You want negativity? Try this!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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There’s negative — often fiery<\/em> — political rhetoric, and then there’s this.<\/p>\n

It comes from Pennsylvania Republican candidate for governor Scott Wagner and is aimed at Democratic incumbent Tom Wolf.<\/p>\n

According to USA Today:\u00a0“Governor Wolf, let me tell you, between now and November 6th, you better put a catcher’s mask on your face because I’m gonna stomp all over your face with golf spikes because I’m gonna win this for the state of Pennsylvania, and we’re throwing you out of office because you know what, I’m sick and tired of your negative ads,” Wagner said in a fiery salvo on Facebook Live.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Wow, man! What in the name of World Wrestling Entertainment (which features a lot of this kind of jawing between pro rasslin’ “opponents) is Wagner saying here?<\/p>\n

Let me declare that I don’t believe he actually intends to “stomp all over” Wolf’s face with golf spikes.<\/p>\n

However, this kind of overheated, overblown and overhyped political rhetoric just feeds into the kind of crap we hear too often on campaign stumps already.<\/p>\n

Stand up and take a bow, Donald John Trump. That means you, too, Mr. President of the United States. To be fair, I haven’t heard the president actually threaten to deliver bodily harm himself to a political foe. Still, at times his rhetoric does cross that line that separates sane and reasoned political discourse from inflammatory political demagoguery.<\/p>\n

See the video\u00a0here.<\/a><\/p>\n

This unhinged rant from Scott Wagner? It defies description.<\/p>\n

Sheesh!<\/p>\n\n

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There’s negative — often fiery — political rhetoric, and then there’s this. It comes from Pennsylvania Republican candidate for governor Scott Wagner and is aimed at Democratic incumbent Tom Wolf. According to USA Today:\u00a0“Governor Wolf, let me tell you, between now and November 6th, you better put a catcher’s mask on your face because I’m … Continue reading You want negativity? Try this!<\/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":[1424,7629,8035],"class_list":["post-32762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-negativity","tag-pennsylvania-governor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32762","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=32762"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32764,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32762\/revisions\/32764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}