{"id":856,"date":"2012-10-24T23:19:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T23:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/24\/putting-words-in-candidates-mouths"},"modified":"2012-10-24T23:19:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T23:19:00","slug":"putting-words-in-candidates-mouths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=856","title":{"rendered":"Putting words in candidates\u2019 mouths"},"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 title=\"http:\/\/amarillo.com\/opinion\/editorial\/2012-10-24\/editorial-gop-remark-stretches-blame-game\" href=\"http:\/\/amarillo.com\/opinion\/editorial\/2012-10-24\/editorial-gop-remark-stretches-blame-game\">http:\/\/amarillo.com\/opinion\/editorial\/2012-10-24\/editorial-gop-remark-stretches-blame-game<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This editorial from the Amarillo Globe-News seeks to take issue with those who link Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney with some hideous remarks about rape by GOP senatorial candidate Richard Mourdock of Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>The essence of the editorial\u2019s concern is that it is inappropriate to hold Romney accountable for remarks made by one of his supporters. Mourdock\u2019s thoughts on rape are his own and are not necessarily Romney\u2019s. <\/p>\n<p>Mourdock said that if a woman becomes pregnant as the result of a rape that her pregnancy is \u201cGod\u2019s will,\u201d suggesting that the Almighty has determined she must give birth to a child conceived in an act of violence.<\/p>\n<p>I won\u2019t criticize my former colleagues for the position taken by this editorial. But I do want to point out the hypocrisy of Republicans who are bemoaning the effort to link Mourdock to their party\u2019s presidential nominee.<\/p>\n<p>Why the hypocrisy? Remember back in 2008 when the Rev. Jeremiah Wright \u2013 Barack Obama\u2019s former Church of Christ pastor \u2013 was uttering some incredibly hateful talk about America. Wright excoriated the nation over racial inequality. What did Obama\u2019s foes do? They said the then-U.S. senator should disavow Wright\u2019s comments and heaped mountains of criticism on him for attending a church led by someone such as Jeremiah Wright. Indeed, Obama eventually did issue a strong disavowal, but in the brass-knuckle political world, that hasn\u2019t been good enough for many of Obama\u2019s persistent critics \u2013 who bring up Jeremiah Wright\u2019s name to this very day.<\/p>\n<p>Didn\u2019t Barack Obama deserve the same benefit of the doubt being sought for Mitt Romney?<\/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>http:\/\/amarillo.com\/opinion\/editorial\/2012-10-24\/editorial-gop-remark-stretches-blame-game This editorial from the Amarillo Globe-News seeks to take issue with those who link Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney with some hideous remarks about rape by GOP senatorial candidate Richard Mourdock of Indiana. The essence of the editorial\u2019s concern is that it is inappropriate to hold Romney accountable for remarks made by one of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=856\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Putting words in candidates\u2019 mouths<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856","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=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}