{"id":10487,"date":"2011-08-02T15:01:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T15:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/08\/02\/conservatives-in-the-lead\/"},"modified":"2011-08-02T15:01:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T15:01:46","slug":"conservatives-in-the-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/08\/02\/conservatives-in-the-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives in the Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/148745\/Political-Ideology-Stable-Conservatives-Leading.aspx\" target=\"_self\">Gallup Poll<\/a> dated 1 August, 41% of Americans self-identify as conservatives, 36% as moderate, and 21% as liberal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Liberals have only themselves to blame for their poor showing.&#0160; Their extremism and reckless deviation from common sense condemn them in the eyes of most of us.&#0160; The op-ed columnists of the once-great New York Times, for example, are an extremist lot.&#0160; Have you ever read a Krugman column?&#0160; Or this morning&#39;s bit of <a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?URI=http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/02\/opinion\/the-tea-partys-war-on-america.html&amp;OQ=Q5fQ72Q3dQ31\" target=\"_self\">hyperventilation<\/a> from Joe Nocera in which he likens Tea Partiers to terrorists?<\/span>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a Gallup Poll dated 1 August, 41% of Americans self-identify as conservatives, 36% as moderate, and 21% as liberal. Liberals have only themselves to blame for their poor showing.&#0160; Their extremism and reckless deviation from common sense condemn them in the eyes of most of us.&#0160; The op-ed columnists of the once-great New &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/08\/02\/conservatives-in-the-lead\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Conservatives in the Lead&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}