{"id":3695,"date":"2009-05-04T15:47:35","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T20:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=3695"},"modified":"2009-05-04T15:47:35","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T20:47:35","slug":"in-case-you-were-wondering-what-the-status-of-gop-moderates-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/3695","title":{"rendered":"In Case You Were Wondering What The Status Of GOP Moderates Is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via Talking Points Memo&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"storyhed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/05\/steele-moderates-are-welcome-to-join-gop----but-not-to-change-it.php?ref=fp2\"><strong>Steele: Moderates Are Welcome To Join GOP &#8212; But Not To Change It<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"storyhed\">Michael Steele has an interesting message for moderates, the <em>Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/statepolitics\/44203877.html\">reports<\/a>. During a news conference at the Wisconsin GOP convention on Friday, Steele said moderates are welcome to join the Republican Party &#8212; but not to change it.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;All you moderates out there, y&#8217;all come. I mean, that&#8217;s the message,&quot; Steele said. &quot;The message of this party is this is a big table for everyone to have a seat. I have a place setting with your name on the front.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>But, he added: &quot;Understand that when you come into someone&#8217;s house, you&#8217;re not looking to change it. You come in because that&#8217;s the place you want to be.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Get it moderates?&nbsp; <em>This is not Your house&#8230;it&#8217;s Our house&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"174\" width=\"282\" alt=\" \" src=\"\/images\/Goposaur_xlg.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"storyhed\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Talking Points Memo&#8230; Steele: Moderates Are Welcome To Join GOP &#8212; But Not To Change It Michael Steele has an interesting message for moderates, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports. During a news conference at the Wisconsin GOP convention on Friday, Steele said moderates are welcome to join the Republican Party &#8212; but not to change [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[118,6],"class_list":["post-3695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-republican-america","tag-the-right-wing-mindset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}