{"id":24012,"date":"2014-10-07T16:52:37","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T20:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24012"},"modified":"2014-10-07T16:52:37","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T20:52:37","slug":"hopefully-this-bad-behavior-will-not-be-successful-and-thus-will-not-be-repeated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24012","title":{"rendered":"Hopefully This Bad Behavior Will Not Be Successful And Thus Will Not Be Repeated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"John H. Hinderaker\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_H._Hinderaker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">John Hinderaker<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2014\/10\/one-more-reason-to-hope-the-democrats-lose-in-november.php\" target=\"_blank\">Power Line<\/a> posted an article today about the continuing Democrat party attacks on Charles and David Koch. The article reminds us that &#8220;It is rare for the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Democratic Party (United States)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.democrats.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Democratic Party<\/a> to send out a fundraising email that fails to invoke the specter of the \u201c<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Koch family\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Koch_family\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Koch brothers<\/a>,\u201d who are treated essentially as <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Bogeyman\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bogeyman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">bogeymen<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>This is unprecedented in our history. Never before has a political party based a campaign on demonizing individual, private citizens who hold opposing beliefs and who exercise their <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"First Amendment to the United States Constitution\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">First Amendment<\/a> right to participate in the political process. In my view, it would be a very bad thing if attacks like those the Democrats have made against Charles and David Koch\u2013which, frankly, border on the insane\u2013were to become the norm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Charles and David Koch are <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Citizenship in the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Citizenship_in_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">American citizens<\/a> who have been very successful in business and are exercising their <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Freedom of the press\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freedom_of_the_press\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">right to free speech<\/a>. To attack them for their wealth and involvement in politics is an example of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Class conflict\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Class_conflict\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">class envy<\/a> at its worst. Hopefully the attack will not be successful and will not be repeated in future campaigns. The politics of pitting one <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">American<\/a> against another in the way the Democrats have done is very unattractive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Hinderaker at Power Line posted an article today about the continuing Democrat party attacks on Charles and David Koch. The article reminds us that &#8220;It is rare for the Democratic Party to send out a fundraising email that fails &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24012\">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":[8224,869,439,853,2682,870,627,285],"class_list":["post-24012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-charles","tag-david-koch","tag-democratic-party","tag-democrats","tag-john-h-hinderaker","tag-koch-family","tag-power-line","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24012","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=24012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24013,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24012\/revisions\/24013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}