{"id":2861,"date":"2009-07-07T13:53:24","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T17:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2861"},"modified":"2009-07-07T13:53:24","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T17:53:24","slug":"dirty-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2861","title":{"rendered":"Dirty Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Talk something through with me.  Why don&#8217;t conservatives fight dirty with liberals like they do with us (generally speaking)?  Many have argued that we should fight fire with fire.  An essay in the <a href=\"http:\/\/article.nationalreview.com\/?q=NDE3MmE5MDVmMGM1YjQ2NmVhMjJkN2I2ZTcxMzhlNjU=\">National Review argues this point<\/a>, saying liberals don&#8217;t care about anything but political power and will argue any means, however illogical, to achieve their desired ends.  So do you believe that and do you think conservatives should return evil for evil as it were?  If not, why not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk something through with me. Why don&#8217;t conservatives fight dirty with liberals like they do with us (generally speaking)? Many have argued that we should fight fire with fire. An essay in the National Review argues this point, saying liberals don&#8217;t care about anything but political power and will argue any means, however illogical, to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2861\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dirty Politics<\/span> <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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}