{"id":2204,"date":"2012-08-27T02:16:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T09:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2204"},"modified":"2015-01-14T19:24:57","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T02:24:57","slug":"rnc-2004-the-big-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2204","title":{"rendered":"RNC 2004: The Big Endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing with our RNC 2004 retrospective&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In America, the Republican Party has become the party of God and Jesus. Well, we shouldn&#8217;t be surprised because Jesus was all about supporting the rich while despising the poor. We&#8217;re sure if Jesus came back today he&#8217;d be wearing a well tailored Armani suit, driving a BMW and\/or a pickup, be a member of an exclusive country club, eating caviar, drinking the finest wines and carrying a loaded gun in case any poor person would think of threatening him. And as for healthcare, he&#8217;d say, &#8220;If you can&#8217;t afford it, well that&#8217;s your fault for being poor. Why should I help you?&#8221; That&#8217;s life in a christian nation. We&#8217;re also sure that it was Jesus who steered Tropical Storm Issac away from a direct hit on Tampa and instead directed it toward other red states like Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, which have many poor people,\u00a0 because, you know&#8230;he loves Republicans so much.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2206\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2206\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=2206\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2206\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2206\" title=\"rncbushjesus\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rncbushjesus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rncbushjesus.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rncbushjesus-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Bush pulls some strings with the Big Guy and gets Jesus to appear to endorse his candidacy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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 America, the Republican Party has become the party of God and Jesus. Well, we shouldn&#8217;t be surprised because Jesus was all about supporting the rich while despising the poor. We&#8217;re sure if Jesus came back today he&#8217;d be wearing a well tailored Armani suit, driving a BMW and\/or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2204\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RNC 2004: The Big Endorsement&#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":[995,61,230,60,49,8,68,3,643],"tags":[578,234,50,252,69,22,52,147,656,70,319,9,75,21,98,596,188,19,647,645,657],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204"}],"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=2204"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3805,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions\/3805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}