{"id":131726,"date":"2016-10-05T00:33:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T00:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/05\/the-republicans-hit-post-instead-of-draft.html"},"modified":"2016-10-05T00:33:07","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T00:33:07","slug":"the-republicans-hit-post-instead-of-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/05\/the-republicans-hit-post-instead-of-draft.html","title":{"rendered":"The Republicans hit POST instead of DRAFT"},"content":{"rendered":"

And so gave us, on the GOP.com<\/a> site, before it even happened,<\/i> their victory lap page on how Mike Pence mopped the floor with Tim Kaine during the debate … which hadn't happened yet.<\/p>\n

"The consensus was clear after the dust settled, Mike Pence was the clear winner of the debate."<\/i><\/p>\n

(Psssst … Reince, that's two uses of the word "clear" in the same sentence — you might want to edit that before you re-post it.)<\/p>\n

The text highlighted Pence's top winning talking points, and noted how it was also a great victory for the man who picked him, Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

One place where the Republicans were a bit too modest: noting that they would be fact-checking the debate "in real time" — when clearly they were fact-checking the debate in FUTURE time<\/i> …<\/p>\n

[h\/t +<\/span>John Wehrle<\/a><\/span>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nRNC Declares Pence the Winner of the Debate — Before It Starts<\/a><\/span>
\nNBC News\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And so gave us, on the GOP.com site, before it even happened, their victory lap page on how Mike Pence mopped the floor with Tim Kaine during the debate … which hadn't happened yet. "The consensus was clear after the dust settled, Mike Pence was the clear winner of the debate." (Psssst … Reince, that's … Continue reading “The Republicans hit POST instead of DRAFT”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":134999,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/08\/you-arent-here-for-the-hunting-are-you.html","url_meta":{"origin":131726,"position":0},"title":"‘You aren’t here for the hunting, are you?”","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 8-Oct-17 3:42pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A series of unfortunate events: Mike Pence attends a football game where he knows there will be anthem protests. 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