{"id":38138,"date":"2013-07-03T16:48:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T22:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/03\/remember-when-the-gop-was-going-to-tone-things-down.html"},"modified":"2013-07-05T17:50:07","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T23:50:07","slug":"remember-when-the-gop-was-going-to-tone-things-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/03\/remember-when-the-gop-was-going-to-tone-things-down.html","title":{"rendered":"Remember when the GOP was going to tone things down?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Yeah, seems like only a few months ago when Republican leaders and strategists were all talking about how they had to stop being ideologically extreme and pursue the interests, and votes, of women, minorities, youth …<\/p>\n

So is this massive flurry of GOP activity on abortion, etc., simply reverting to form? Or trying to raise money now before putting back on a "moderate" face next year (or in 2016)? \u00a0Or a sign that somr of them are worried they might not be around in 2-4 years, and need to pass these laws while they still can?<\/p>\n

Whatever it is, I really don't get the sense that they are making much effort\u00a0to win the hearts and minds of the folks they were all outwardly sure\u00a0they had to win the hearts and minds of.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Rubio Plans To Introduce Texas-Style Abortion Ban In The Senate<\/a>
\n Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) is planning to introduce a bill in the Senate that would ban abortion after 20 weeks, the Weekly Standard reported on Wednesday. The bill is meant to mirror anti-abortion legislation passed last month by the House of Representatives. Under the plan reportedly being proposed by Rubio, a woman would be unable […]\n <\/p>\n

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Yeah, seems like only a few months ago when Republican leaders and strategists were all talking about how they had to stop being ideologically extreme and pursue the interests, and votes, of women, minorities, youth … So is this massive flurry of GOP activity on abortion, etc., simply reverting to form? Or trying to raise … Continue reading “Remember when the GOP was going to tone things down?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,99,353,358,347,348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2012","category-elections-2014","category-poor-citizenship","category-voting-rights","category-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32029,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/03\/another-victim-of-the-house-gop-the-violence-against-women-act.html","url_meta":{"origin":38138,"position":0},"title":"Another victim of the House GOP: the Violence Against Women Act","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 3-Jan-13 10:45am","format":false,"excerpt":"Like Hurricane Sandy victims, the GOP in the House decided that rather than negotiate on what they disliked about the Senate bill (which apparently gave too much support to immigrants, Lesbians, and Native American women), they simply let it die until next Congress. \u00a0Way to win the hearts and minds\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26446,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/16\/the-gop-war-on-women-is-having-an-effect.html","url_meta":{"origin":38138,"position":1},"title":"The GOP war on women is having an effect","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 16-Feb-12 7:06pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's driving independent \/ centrist women over to supporting Obama. It is, of course, still early days in the presidential campaign, but, really -- social conservatives were already going to be voting GOP (even with their noses pinched if it's Romney). With the electorate so evenly split the last couple\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":18668,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/21\/unblogged-bits-tue-21-sep-10-1731.html","url_meta":{"origin":38138,"position":2},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Tue. 21-Sep-10 1731)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 21-Sep-10 5:31pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... \u201cThe Money\u2019s Flowing,\u201d But From Where? - But that's not really money! That's (corporate) FREE SPEECH! Right? Voter Suppression Plan Uncovered in Wisconsin - \"Trying to win an election by getting fewer people to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Animation \/ Cartoons"","block_context":{"text":"Animation \/ Cartoons","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-cartoons"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":37839,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/16\/the-gop-keep-realizing-things-then-ignoring-them.html","url_meta":{"origin":38138,"position":3},"title":"The GOP keep realizing things, then ignoring them","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 16-Jun-13 6:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"If you talk to most GOP leadership, they'll demonstrate they know exactly what they need to do to keep their party nationally relevant and capable of winning for the future. \u00a0And then they get back up in Congress and the campaign trail and say the same thing to their base\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26214,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/08\/is-this-the-battle-that-the-gop-wants-to-fight-this-year.html","url_meta":{"origin":38138,"position":4},"title":"Is this the battle that the GOP wants to fight this year?","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 8-Feb-12 2:27pm","format":false,"excerpt":"There'd been some indications that the whole culture wars \/ social conservatism thing was supposed to go a bit into the background this election cycle. Instead, it was all going to be about the economy for the GOP.But ... the economy's actually, slowly, improving. And as the string of zany\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25781,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/28\/not-worth-the-risk.html","url_meta":{"origin":38138,"position":5},"title":"Not worth the risk","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 28-Jan-12 5:51pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeah, I've felt this way about most of the GOP field this year. \"Yeah, wouldn't be cool if Gingrich (Santorum, Perry, Bachmann) won the GOP nomination? Obama would be a shoe-in!\" \"Yeah, but what if something awful, unforeseen, unpredicted happened, and they won instead?\"So, yeah, while I agree with the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38152,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38138\/revisions\/38152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}