{"id":48212,"date":"2021-06-06T00:01:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T00:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48212"},"modified":"2021-06-06T00:01:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T00:01:23","slug":"gop-has-gone-bonkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48212","title":{"rendered":"GOP has gone bonkers"},"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><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/brian-kemp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-48213\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/brian-kemp-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/brian-kemp-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/brian-kemp-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/brian-kemp.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By John Kanelis<\/strong> \/ <a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just how wacky has the Republican Party become in the Age of Trump?<\/p>\n<p>Well, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, one of Trump&#8217;s strongest allies, got booed when he stood to speak before the George Republican convention. Why were the goober Republicans angry with Kemp? Because the governor wouldn&#8217;t force the secretary of state to break the law and &#8220;find&#8221; enough votes to turn the state from a Joe Biden win to a Donald Trump win.<\/p>\n<p>So, for that the nut jobs have taken their vengeance out on a governor who happens be a Trump ally &#8230; but who just couldn&#8217;t bring himself to break the law or violate the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>This is the kind of goofiness that Republicans are facing as they do battle among themselves, not to mention when they face Democrats in the upcoming midterm election.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/trump-loyalists-boo-kemp-at-georgia-s-gop-convention\/ar-AAKKhiq?ocid=msedgdhp\">Trump loyalists boo Kemp at Georgia&#8217;s GOP convention (msn.com)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, Trump is playing the GOP loyalists like the fools they are for following the dictates of the former Dipsh** in Chief. I mean, the ex-POTUS is even a real Republican, but he has fooled &#8217;em into thinking he is one of them.<\/p>\n<p>They are left now to boo and jeer actual Republican politicians &#8212; such as Gov. Kemp &#8212; only because they won&#8217;t follow Trump&#8217;s demands out the window.<\/p>\n<p>Weird, man.<\/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>By John Kanelis \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com Just how wacky has the Republican Party become in the Age of Trump? Well, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, one of Trump&#8217;s strongest allies, got booed when he stood to speak before the George Republican convention. Why were the goober Republicans angry with Kemp? Because the governor wouldn&#8217;t force the secretary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48212\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GOP has gone bonkers<\/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":[7225,8118,1424,1941],"class_list":["post-48212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2020-election","tag-brian-kemp","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48212","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=48212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48215,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48212\/revisions\/48215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}