{"id":3638,"date":"2014-10-28T14:41:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T21:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3638"},"modified":"2019-01-20T20:01:29","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T03:01:29","slug":"gop-scaring-up-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3638","title":{"rendered":"GOP Scaring Up Votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size-full wp-image-3639\" title=\"republicanfearmongering\">The knob on the Republican Noise and Fear Machine has been cranked all the way up to 11 this summer and fall in their desperate attempt to scare Americans into voting for conservative Republican candidates this year and give the Republicans a majority in the Senate and the House. This is the standard GOP tactic and has been used successfully many times in the past to get the American sheeple for vote Republican. What can a rational, thinking person possibly do to combat these horrifying, terrifying, frightening, scare tactics, you may ask? We could start by remembering the words of FDR; &#8220;We have nothing to fear but fear itself&#8221;. There&#8217;s really only one solution to this conservative Republican fearmongering: just say <strong>NO<\/strong>&#8230; to Republicans!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3639\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3639\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=3639\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3639\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3639\" title=\"republicanfearmongering\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/republicanfearmongering.jpg\" alt=\"Republican ghouls McConnell, Cruz, McCain, Krauthammer and Boehner are scaring up votes from the electorate this Halloween.\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/republicanfearmongering.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/republicanfearmongering-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3639\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">America&#8217;s favorite Republican ghouls have been out this Halloween season literally scaring up votes from the electorate.<\/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>The knob on the Republican Noise and Fear Machine has been cranked all the way up to 11 this summer and fall in their desperate attempt to scare Americans into voting for conservative Republican candidates this year and give the Republicans a majority in the Senate and the House. This is the standard GOP tactic &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3638\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GOP Scaring Up Votes&#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":[61,60,8,68,85,3,198,1863],"tags":[947,16,916,252,69,22,20,389,783,953,147,70,954,955,948,4,9,259,951,950,890,575,712,199,21,43,98,19,956,957,47,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638"}],"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=3638"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6498,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions\/6498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}