{"id":1728,"date":"2008-11-08T12:06:23","date_gmt":"2008-11-08T16:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2008-11-08T12:06:23","modified_gmt":"2008-11-08T16:06:23","slug":"the-party-of-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/11\/08\/the-party-of-ignorance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Party of Ignorance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime back, someone used the phrase &#8220;the joyful marriage of confidence and ignorance&#8221; to describe the values of the people that the Palin candidacy appealed to.\u00c2\u00a0 For me, that does a fairly good job of describing the Republican Party as a whole.\u00c2\u00a0 There are, to be sure, exceptions.\u00c2\u00a0 But that is what lies at its political core.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 And as Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell argues below, it&#8217;s those sort of political values that can almost deliver the Vice Presidency to someone like Sarah Palin:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oD_e4yTQpg8[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re laughing, but it&#8217;s not funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime back, someone used the phrase &#8220;the joyful marriage of confidence and ignorance&#8221; to describe the values of the people that the Palin candidacy appealed to.\u00c2\u00a0 For me, that does a fairly good job of describing the Republican Party as a whole.\u00c2\u00a0 There are, to be sure, exceptions.\u00c2\u00a0 But that is what lies at its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1729,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions\/1729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}