{"id":20227,"date":"2015-04-06T13:21:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T17:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=20227"},"modified":"2015-04-06T13:27:19","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T17:27:19","slug":"cruz-abandons-subtlety-with-theocentric-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/04\/06\/cruz-abandons-subtlety-with-theocentric-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruz abandons subtlety with theocentric pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Rachel Maddow Show<\/em> blog has the story <a title=\"The Rachell Maddow blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/cruz-abandons-subtlety-theocentric-pitch?cid=sm_fb_maddow\" target=\"_blank\">Cruz abandons subtlety with theocentric pitch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It stands to reason that far-right candidates running in a crowded GOP field are going to take every opportunity to appeal to far-right social conservatives, but if Cruz\u2019s over-the-top commercial is the opening salvo, I shudder to think just how theocratic Republican messaging will become by, say, October, with several candidates trying to outdo each other.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I added the <a title=\"My comment\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/cruz-abandons-subtlety-theocentric-pitch?cid=sm_fb_maddow#th4354989-c87881856\" target=\"_blank\">comment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Instead of calling them &#8220;far-right social conservatives&#8221;, why not just call them what they are, &#8220;the American Taliban&#8221;?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"Another comment\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/cruz-abandons-subtlety-theocentric-pitch?cid=sm_fb_maddow#th4354989-c87878954\" target=\"_blank\">Another comment<\/a> started with:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Well, now the christianists have someone they can rally around and present a united front.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some people worry about the imposition of Sharia law in the USA, see my previous post <a title=\"Previous post\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/04\/03\/mayor-takes-stand-against-muslim-shariah-courts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor takes stand against Muslim Shariah courts<\/a>.\u00a0 I am not worried that some people in the US would voluntarily submit to arbitration before a panel of Muslims or a panel of Jews, or even a panel of Priests.\u00a0 I am worried about having mandatory Christianist law in the USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rachel Maddow Show blog has the story Cruz abandons subtlety with theocentric pitch. It stands to reason that far-right candidates running in a crowded GOP field are going to take every opportunity to appeal to far-right social conservatives, but if Cruz\u2019s over-the-top commercial is the opening salvo, I shudder to think just how theocratic [&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-20227","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\/20227","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=20227"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20230,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20227\/revisions\/20230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}