{"id":51734,"date":"2015-07-14T16:30:41","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T22:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/14\/what-the-gop-needs-for-2016.html"},"modified":"2015-07-14T16:30:41","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T22:30:41","slug":"what-the-gop-needs-for-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/14\/what-the-gop-needs-for-2016.html","title":{"rendered":"What the GOP Needs for 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#39;s satire (the Borowitz Report). But, like all good satire, disturbingly close to the truth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/poll-palin-would-bring-much-needed-dignity-to-republican-field'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/Ve_5_aP5fDvIc3SSOyXKD6M1-rS1em_RSFz4vKLY2pcONCxUpPfm5KSzJGvyjX7R-7fTf-rhMHEIz6eO1zgfVtjItIdHHHqgdO6nJj7ABlHvAjLX9FrgsHb-W__BHox6m1RYJUI=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/poll-palin-would-bring-much-needed-dignity-to-republican-field'>Poll: Palin Would Bring Much-Needed Dignity to Republican Field<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nCredit Photograph by Scott Olson\/Getty\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/ieVGVz1vz2c'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#39;s satire (the Borowitz Report). But, like all good satire, disturbingly close to the truth. Poll: Palin Would Bring Much-Needed Dignity to Republican Field Credit Photograph by Scott Olson\/Getty View on Google+<\/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":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51734","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":136353,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/09\/pulling-out.html","url_meta":{"origin":51734,"position":0},"title":"Pulling Out","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 9-May-18 6:48pm","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/18965459\/status\/994360965671010304 \"Trump Considering Pulling U.S. Out of Constitution\" Heh. https:\/\/t.co\/Jr9FU0JsCR #satire #or-IS-it","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~Tweets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/trump1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":51324,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/01\/a-clearly-biased-yet-pleasingly-humorous-autonomous-car-satire.html","url_meta":{"origin":51734,"position":1},"title":"A clearly biased, yet pleasingly humorous, autonomous car satire","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 1-Jun-15 5:03am","format":false,"excerpt":"Heh. 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