{"id":3347,"date":"2014-05-03T22:58:05","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T05:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3347"},"modified":"2014-05-19T12:18:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T19:18:13","slug":"gops-new-strategist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3347","title":{"rendered":"The New GOP Strategist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unless you&#8217;ve been living under a rock, you probably know about the conservative movement&#8217;s new hero, Cliven Bundy. He&#8217;s <a title=\"Cliven Bundy and the entitlement of the privileged\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/katrina-vanden-heuvel-cliven-bundy-and-the-entitlement-of-the-privileged\/2014\/04\/29\/8f34849e-cf05-11e3-937f-d3026234b51c_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Nevada Rancher who&#8217;s been grazing his cattle on federal lands<\/a> because he feels that it&#8217;s his land and not the gubmint&#8217;s. Well, as we all know from the Sarah Palin for Vice President fiasco in 2008, conservative Republicans don&#8217;t seem to be too good at the vetting process. Just after Fox News &#8216;journalist&#8217; Sean Hannity, picked Mr. Bundy as his new American hero, ol&#8217; Cliven proclaimed his belief that African Americans had a good thing going with slavery. Although initial indications are that Republicans are putting distance between themselves and ol&#8217; Cliven (at least for the time being), we think that the GOP has a new position for him.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3353\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3353\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=3353\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3353\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3353\" title=\"gopstrategist\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gopstrategist.jpg\" alt=\"Republican Party chairman, Reince Priebus, announces that new conservative darling, Cliven Bundy, will be the new GOP strategist for the upcoming 2014 elections.\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gopstrategist.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gopstrategist-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Republican Party has announced that new conservative darling, Cliven Bundy, will be the new GOP strategist for the upcoming 2014 elections.<\/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>Unless you&#8217;ve been living under a rock, you probably know about the conservative movement&#8217;s new hero, Cliven Bundy. He&#8217;s the Nevada Rancher who&#8217;s been grazing his cattle on federal lands because he feels that it&#8217;s his land and not the gubmint&#8217;s. Well, as we all know from the Sarah Palin for Vice President fiasco in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3347\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The New GOP Strategist&#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":[61,60,8,85,3,198],"tags":[888,887,22,20,389,27,889,4,9,254,21,231,98,596,758,19,47,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347"}],"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=3347"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3371,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions\/3371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}