{"id":20165,"date":"2015-04-01T10:38:47","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T14:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=20165"},"modified":"2015-04-01T10:44:08","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T14:44:08","slug":"religious-right-puts-gop-at-odds-with-public-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/04\/01\/religious-right-puts-gop-at-odds-with-public-opinion\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious right puts GOP at odds with public opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rachel Maddow show has the video R<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/watch\/gop-contenders-back-pence-over-public-opinion-420986947619\" title=\"The Rachell Maddow segment\" target=\"_blank\">eligious right puts GOP at odds with public opinion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nRachel Maddow shows how conservative politics can often put Republican politicians at odds with public opinion while trying to satisfy the religious right. Tom Lobianco of the Indianapolis Star Tribune joins to discuss Indiana&#8217;s new discrimination law.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe src='http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_maddow_aind_150331' height='500' width='635' scrolling='no' style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" ><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>Rachel Maddow sure can go on and on without ever seemingly getting to the point.  As much of this as you can bear to watch, she does make a point.  I don&#8217;t want to spoil her punchline by commenting further in the open.<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-spoiler su-spoiler-style-fancy su-spoiler-icon-plus-square-1 spolierclass su-spoiler-closed\" data-anchor=\"Maddowpunchline\" data-scroll-offset=\"0\" data-anchor-in-url=\"no\"><div class=\"su-spoiler-title\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\"><span class=\"su-spoiler-icon\"><\/span>Warning: This discloses Rachel Maddow's punchline<\/div><div class=\"su-spoiler-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">The point that I took away from this segment is that John Elias Bush (JEB) is absolutely one of the worst possible people to be President.  If his interference in this case is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/?gws_rd=ssl#q=define+bruited\" title=\"Definition of bruited\" target=\"_blank\">bruited<\/a> about while he is running, then I would hope that this would doom his chances of ever getting elected.  I couldn&#8217;t stand to watch the segment to the end, so I skipped to the last page.  She also talks about the backlash over the new Indiana discrimination law.<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rachel Maddow show has the video Religious right puts GOP at odds with public opinion. Rachel Maddow shows how conservative politics can often put Republican politicians at odds with public opinion while trying to satisfy the religious right. Tom Lobianco of the Indianapolis Star Tribune joins to discuss Indiana&#8217;s new discrimination law. Rachel Maddow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20165"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20171,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20165\/revisions\/20171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}