{"id":316,"date":"2007-12-26T13:26:18","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T17:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godandculture.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/26\/new-media-tanks-rolling-to-supress-grass-roots-revolt-in-gop\/"},"modified":"2007-12-26T13:26:18","modified_gmt":"2007-12-26T17:26:18","slug":"new-media-tanks-rolling-to-supress-grass-roots-revolt-in-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/new-media-tanks-rolling-to-supress-grass-roots-revolt-in-gop","title":{"rendered":"New Media tanks rolling to supress grass roots revolt in GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/columnists\/PaulEdwards\/2007\/12\/25\/social_conservatives_are_%e2%80%9cmad_as_hell%e2%80%9d\">As my latest Townhall column prophesies<\/a>, the New Media tanks have begun to roll in an effort to suppress those grassroots social conservatives in the GOP who heretofore have refused to bow at the altar of the Republican Establishment.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/hughhewitt.townhall.com\/blog\/g\/25ae7ad9-526c-4346-9427-f77e22862979\">Hugh Hewitt leads the charge with his latest post today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Huckabee&#8217;s lunge left may not have been premeditated, but it clearly displayed a candidate with no anchor in the GOP&#8217;s tradition of fiscal restraint, free trade and low taxes and a very limited understanding of the world&#8217;s most dangerous forces.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>. . . . .<\/p>\n<p>As actual voting approaches, GOP regulars have to ask themselves who can beat either Senator Clinton or Senator Obama.\u00a0 Mike Huckabee will never rally the GOP base to his standard given\u00a0his populist rhetoric &#8211;the sort of nonsense that President Bush and every GOP nominee since Reagan has blasted away at.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hugh&#8217;s committment to the GOP status quo is mind boggling given his leadership in the formation of the New Media. The bumper sticker on the back of Hugh&#8217;s tank reads: No fresh thinking allowed in the GOP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As my latest Townhall column prophesies, the New Media tanks have begun to roll in an effort to suppress those grassroots social conservatives in the GOP who heretofore have refused to bow at the altar of the Republican Establishment. Hugh &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/new-media-tanks-rolling-to-supress-grass-roots-revolt-in-gop\">Continue reading <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":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}