{"id":1794,"date":"2009-05-13T21:02:20","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T01:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1794"},"modified":"2009-05-13T21:02:20","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T01:02:20","slug":"dont-brand-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1794","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Brand Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let them <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0509\/22445.html\" target=\"_blank\">brand themselves<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A member of the Republican National Committee told me Tuesday that when the RNC meets in an extraordinary special session next week, it will approve a resolution <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0409\/21638.html\">rebranding<\/a> Democrats as the \u201cDemocrat Socialist Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>No, no, no, no, no.&#160; Let their actions speak for themselves, from purchasing interests in financial and auto companies, to <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124217356836613091.html\" target=\"_blank\">ignoring bankruptcy law<\/a> when dealing with those companies in order to pay off special interests, to spending billions (and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0509\/22444.html\" target=\"_blank\">taxing more<\/a>) on <a href=\"http:\/\/socglory.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/obamas-health-care-quackery-countries.html\" target=\"_blank\">universal health care<\/a>, they can pretty much fill out the &quot;Hello, my name is&quot; badge themselves.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m with Michael Steele on this.&#160; All this will do is give the media and the Democrats a tool to hammer Republicans with.&#160; &quot;They&#8217;re comparing him to Hugo Chavez&quot; or something like that.&#160; While the truth is that they&#8217;re pulling us in that direction and not letting a crisis go to waste (as Mr. Emmanuel has declared), labeling them doesn&#8217;t change minds, or at least not for long.&#160; Pointing out why their policies are flawed will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let them brand themselves. A member of the Republican National Committee told me Tuesday that when the RNC meets in an extraordinary special session next week, it will approve a resolution rebranding Democrats as the \u201cDemocrat Socialist Party.\u201d No, no, no, no, no.&#160; Let their actions speak for themselves, from purchasing interests in financial and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,26,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-politics","category-republicans"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}