{"id":333,"date":"2010-07-29T09:33:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T14:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/politics\/?p=333"},"modified":"2010-07-29T09:33:36","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T14:33:36","slug":"an-open-letter-to-the-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/an-open-letter-to-the-gop\/","title":{"rendered":"An Open Letter to the GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently received yet another email begging for money. I can not, in good faith, support the RNC. <strong>I didn&#8217;t leave the party, the party left me.<\/strong> Many things led up to this conclusion, but the RNC backing of <a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2009\/10\/20\/dede-scozzafava-liar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dede Scozzafava<\/a> was the last straw.<\/p>\n<p>Do something that proves you will return to the conservatives values America still holds dear. Listen, really listen, to what the Tea Party is asking for. <em>Back politicians that will do what the people want<\/em>, not old RINOs (Republican In Name Only) just because they&#8217;ve been in Congress so long.<\/p>\n<p>Get rid of the caucus. It&#8217;s stupid, and can lead to voter intimidation. Make all primaries nationwide a secret ballot. And for Heaven&#8217;s sake! <strong><em>Close the ever lovin&#8217; primaries <\/em><\/strong>so the Democrats can&#8217;t infiltrate our ranks and give us a RINO like John McCain again.<\/p>\n<p>Prove to me that the party is worth supporting, and I will support it again. Until then, you will not see a dime from me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently received yet another email begging for money. I can not, in good faith, support the RNC. I didn&#8217;t leave the party, the party left me. Many things led &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_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},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-politics","tag-boneheaded-republicans-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}