{"id":2146,"date":"2012-08-21T00:10:19","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T07:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2146"},"modified":"2018-03-31T18:22:36","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T01:22:36","slug":"rnc-2004-the-governator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2146","title":{"rendered":"RNC 2004: The Governator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing with our RNC 2004 retrospective&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In 2004, the Governator, Arnold Schwarzenegger, was the darling of the Republican party. He had just become the Republican governor of the very blue state of California. There were even some GOP henchmen, who were working to change the Constitution so that foreign born people like Arnold could become President. But alas, the Governator veered to the left during his terms in office, actually <em>working with<\/em> Democrats and supporting environmental legislation. This, of course, meant he fell out of favor with the corporate loving, environmental hating right wing. Now he&#8217;s out of office, divorced from Maria Shriver, and back to performing in bad action movie revivals (<em>The Expendables<\/em> franchise). But don&#8217;t worry folks&#8230;wait for it&#8230; he&#8217;ll be back! (Come on&#8230;you didn&#8217;t think we could resist putting in a lame catch phrase reference, do you?)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2150\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2150\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=2150\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2150\" title=\"rncarnold\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rncarnold.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rncarnold.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rncarnold-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2150\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Always the pitchman, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger hawks some of his lamer movies to the pliant crowd.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing with our RNC 2004 retrospective&#8230; In 2004, the Governator, Arnold Schwarzenegger, was the darling of the Republican party. He had just become the Republican governor of the very blue state of California. There were even some GOP henchmen, who were working to change the Constitution so that foreign born people like Arnold could become &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2146\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RNC 2004: The Governator&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,230,8,3,643,1715],"tags":[578,234,649,22,646,650,147,9,648,21,98,596,19,647,645,262],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2146"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5945,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions\/5945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}