{"id":23151,"date":"2014-06-25T12:38:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T16:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=23151"},"modified":"2014-06-25T12:40:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T16:40:07","slug":"why-voter-education-is-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=23151","title":{"rendered":"Why Voter Education Is Important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/381187\/flier-got-thad-cochran-elected-john-fund\" target=\"_blank\">The Corner<\/a> at <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"National Review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">National Review<\/a> posted a picture of the flier that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Thad Cochran\" href=\"http:\/\/cochran.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Thad Cochran<\/a> passed out before the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Mississippi\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=33.0,-90.0&amp;spn=3.0,3.0&amp;q=33.0,-90.0 (Mississippi)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Mississippi<\/a> Republican <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Primary election\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Primary_election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">primary election<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is the picture:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/aaaaaaaathadcochran.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23152\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/aaaaaaaathadcochran.png\" alt=\"aaaaaaaathadcochran\" width=\"470\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/aaaaaaaathadcochran.png 470w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/aaaaaaaathadcochran-263x300.png 263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a>I am ashamed that a Republican ran this sort of campaign. However, this campaign would have been much less effective on an educated voter base. In the end, the voters are responsible for who they send to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Washington (state)\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=47.5,-120.5&amp;spn=3.0,3.0&amp;q=47.5,-120.5 (Washington%20%28state%29)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Washington<\/a>. As much as I hate to see <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Harry Reid\" href=\"http:\/\/reid.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Harry Reid<\/a> stay in power, I hope Senator Cochran loses in the general election. This is a disgrace. It is also a reason conservative Republicans should stop giving money to the Republican Party, but only donate to individual candidates.<\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Democratic Party (United States)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.democrats.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Democrats<\/a> have branded the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"The Tea Party\" href=\"http:\/\/teaparty.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Tea Party<\/a> as racist as a way to undermine the message of smaller government and lower taxes. It is a shame that some establishment Republicans have chosen to echo that message. The Tea Party represents the only hope of change in Washington. That is why the political class is so opposed to their message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Corner at National Review posted a picture of the flier that Thad Cochran passed out before the Mississippi Republican primary election. This is the picture: I am ashamed that a Republican ran this sort of campaign. However, this campaign &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=23151\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7755,219,733,7658,911,164,1108,7756,615],"class_list":["post-23151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chris-mcdaniel","tag-democratic","tag-harry-reid","tag-mississippi","tag-national-review","tag-republican","tag-tea","tag-thad-cochran","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23154,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23151\/revisions\/23154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}