{"id":41069,"date":"2020-02-04T21:22:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T21:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41069"},"modified":"2020-02-04T21:22:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T21:22:05","slug":"democrats-belong-to-the-inclusive-political-party-right-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41069","title":{"rendered":"Democrats belong to the &#8216;inclusive&#8217; political party, right? Well &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23gaymarriage%20%23MayorPete%20%23Iowacaucus&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/buttigieg.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41070\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/buttigieg-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/buttigieg-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/buttigieg-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/buttigieg.png 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Iowa caucus SNAFU is enough of a nightmare for the Democratic Party, given the app malfunction that has delayed final results from the caucuses across the state.<\/p>\n<p>Then comes this tidbit that seems to shoot a hole in the notion that the Democratic Party is more a, um, <em>inclusive<\/em> major political organization.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that a caucus-goer wanted to take back her vote for former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg when she learned that Mayor Pete is <em>gay.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I guess she was unhappy hearing the news, allegedly for the first time. Now, I say &#8220;allegedly&#8221; because Buttigieg is<em> openly<\/em> gay. He is married to a fellow who&#8217;s shown up on campaign stages with the Democratic Party candidate from time to time.<\/p>\n<p>Buttigieg doesn&#8217;t use his sexual orientation as a major campaign theme. He discusses other issues, such as, you know \u2026 climate change, ethics in government, war and peace, taxation, infrastructure improvement. These are issues that matter to all Americans.<\/p>\n<p>The Iowa caucus-goer, though, sought to take her vote back because, I am going to presume, that she no longer thinks Mayor Pete is qualified to be president of the United States. Why? <em>Because he is gay!<\/em> That&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p>My late mother had a saying that seems to fit this individual to the letter. Mom would say that someone is &#8220;so narrow-minded he could look through a keyhole \u2026 <em>with both eyes.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23gaymarriage%20%23MayorPete%20%23Iowacaucus&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iowa caucus SNAFU is enough of a nightmare for the Democratic Party, given the app malfunction that has delayed final results from the caucuses across the state. Then comes this tidbit that seems to shoot a hole in the notion that the Democratic Party is more a, um, inclusive major political organization. It seems &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41069\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Democrats belong to the &#8216;inclusive&#8217; political party, right? Well &#8230;<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1863,2308,8487],"class_list":["post-41069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-gay-marriage","tag-iowa-caucus","tag-pete-buttigieg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41069","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=41069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41071,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41069\/revisions\/41071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}