{"id":3434,"date":"2013-09-02T21:05:12","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T21:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=3434"},"modified":"2013-09-02T21:05:12","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T21:05:12","slug":"unborn-babies-would-vote-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3434","title":{"rendered":"Unborn babies would vote Republican?"},"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>Texas Railroad Commissioner Barry Smitherman is reaching deeply into the darkest corners of some rhetorical warehouse for a recent comment on abortion, politics and related matters.<\/p>\n<p>Smitherman is running for the Republican nomination for Texas attorney general. He told a Texas anti-abortion group that most unborn babies would vote Republican.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2013\/08\/30\/smitherman-unborn-babies-would-have-voted-republic\/<\/p>\n<p>Smitherman was the keynote speaker of the Alliance for Life meeting in mid-August. An abortion-rights activist, Jessica Luther, called the remark a &#8220;strange statement.&#8221; Meanwhile, Smitherman spokesman Allen Blakemore, said his boss was merely citing a &#8220;statistic,&#8221; given that Texas is a heavily Republican state.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to figure out precisely what Smitherman&#8217;s message is intended to convey. If it was meant to state the obvious, as Blakemore noted, I find it an odd expression. I&#8217;m inclined to go a little farther than how Luther described it. It sounds downright weird.<\/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>Texas Railroad Commissioner Barry Smitherman is reaching deeply into the darkest corners of some rhetorical warehouse for a recent comment on abortion, politics and related matters. Smitherman is running for the Republican nomination for Texas attorney general. He told a Texas anti-abortion group that most unborn babies would vote Republican. http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2013\/08\/30\/smitherman-unborn-babies-would-have-voted-republic\/ Smitherman was the keynote &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3434\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unborn babies would vote Republican?<\/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":[1],"tags":[122,550,4585,4684],"class_list":["post-3434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortion","tag-barry-smitherman","tag-texas-attorney-general","tag-texas-railroad-commission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434","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=3434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}