{"id":8387,"date":"2018-06-29T12:14:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T16:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8387"},"modified":"2018-06-29T12:14:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T16:14:25","slug":"quote-for-the-day-119","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8387","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>And when we look around for a conservatism that would seek some moderation at this juncture, we see only cowardice from elected Republicans.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2018\/06\/anthony-kennedy-and-the-death-of-true-american-conservatism.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nymag%2Fintelligencer+%28Daily+Intelligencer+-+New+York+Magazine%29\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Sullivan<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Once again: The Republican Party is not a <i>conservative<\/i> party in any meaningful sense of the word; it is a <i>radical<\/i> party animated by crude, anti-intellectual fundamentalisms and dedicated to vandalizing whatever is beyond its comprehension.<\/p>\n<p>It is <i>not<\/i> the pragmatic, forward-looking realism of Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, even Richard Nixon.  It is the unfocused and  uninhibited malice of George Wallace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And when we look around for a conservatism that would seek some moderation at this juncture, we see only cowardice from elected Republicans. Andrew Sullivan Once again: The Republican Party is not a conservative party in any meaningful sense of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8387\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8387"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8389,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8387\/revisions\/8389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}