{"id":1788,"date":"2005-10-03T14:03:46","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T18:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/10\/wgop_on_miers\/"},"modified":"2005-10-03T14:03:46","modified_gmt":"2005-10-03T18:03:46","slug":"wgop_on_miers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/10\/wgop_on_miers\/","title":{"rendered":"WGOP On Miers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2005_10_02_atrios_archive.html#112835703239326680\">This<\/a> pretty well summarizes what I heard today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wingnuttia is rather angry at the choice. I don&#8217;t think this is because they&#8217;re really concerned that she&#8217;s not conservative enough for their tastes, although that&#8217;s part of it. They&#8217;re angry because this was supposed to be their nomination. This is was their moment. They didn&#8217;t just want a stealth victory, they wanted parades and fireworks. They wanted Bush to find the wingnuttiest wingnut on the planet, fully clothed and accessorized in all the latest wingnut fashions, not just to give them their desired Court rulings, but also to publicly validate their influence and power. They didn&#8217;t just want substantive results, what they wanted even more were symbolic ones. They wanted Bush to extend a giant middle finger to everyone to the left of John Ashcroft. They wanted to watch Democrats howl and scream and then ultimately lose a nasty confirmation battle. They wanted this to be their &#8220;WE RUN THE COUNTRY AND THERE&#8217;S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT&#8221; moment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oddly, the talk radio crowd seems more concerned about the in-your-face factor of the selection than the nominee&#8217;s actual philosophy.  &#8220;What&#8217;s best for America&#8221; seems to be the last of their concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/10\/wgop_on_miers\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to WGOP On Miers\"><p>This pretty well summarizes what I heard today: Wingnuttia is rather angry at the choice. I don&#8217;t think this is because they&#8217;re really concerned that she&#8217;s not conservative enough for their tastes, although that&#8217;s part of it. They&#8217;re angry because this was supposed to be their nomination. This is was their moment. They didn&#8217;t just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}