{"id":2252,"date":"2007-11-14T12:54:36","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T17:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/limbaugh_illega\/"},"modified":"2007-11-14T12:54:36","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T17:54:36","slug":"limbaugh_illega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/11\/limbaugh_illega\/","title":{"rendered":"Limbaugh: Illegal Immigration A Winner For GOP In 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Funny incident on the radio.  I was listening to comedian Rush Limbaugh go on and on about how the illegal immigration issue is a surefire winner for the Republican nominee in the 2008 presidential election.<br \/>\nJust a couple minutes later a caller comes on and asks which Republican candidate is best suited to carry the GOP torch on the illegal immigration issue.<br \/>\nThat seems like a pertinent question, doesn&#8217;t it?  If your party has a winning issue, you want to vote for a strong candidate.<br \/>\nOddly, Limbaugh didn&#8217;t have an answer.  He said something about only paying attention to a few (Republican) candidates and made a bumbling comment about Governor Romney being pretty good.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;d think that on such an important issue, Limbaugh might do a little more homework.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not a GOP insider, but I&#8217;m pretty sure <a href=\"http:\/\/teamtancredo.org\/home\/\">Representative Tom Tancredo<\/a> has made illegal immigration his signature issue.  In fact, immigration is the only issue I associate with Tancredo.  And yet Limbaugh didn&#8217;t even bother to mention him.  How come?<br \/>\nIt couldn&#8217;t possibly be because Tancredo, running on the all-important immigration issue, has languished at the bottom of the polls, could it?  That&#8217;s a rather inconvenient fact to square with Limbaugh&#8217;s theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/11\/limbaugh_illega\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Limbaugh: Illegal Immigration A Winner For GOP In 2008\"><p>Funny incident on the radio. I was listening to comedian Rush Limbaugh go on and on about how the illegal immigration issue is a surefire winner for the Republican nominee in the 2008 presidential election. Just a couple minutes later a caller comes on and asks which Republican candidate is best suited to carry the [&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-2252","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\/2252","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=2252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}