{"id":11798,"date":"2015-12-02T19:47:20","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T23:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=11798"},"modified":"2015-12-02T19:47:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T23:47:20","slug":"aping-trump-tactics-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2015\/12\/02\/aping-trump-tactics-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Can&#8217;t Beat Trump, Join Him?  (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/private-memo-lays-out-how-the-gop-would-deal-with-trump-as-its-nominee\/2015\/12\/02\/78514cba-9909-11e5-94f0-9eeaff906ef3_story.html\">Republican strategy for dealing with the scourge of Trump<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a seven-page confidential memo that imagines Trump as the party\u2019s presidential nominee, the head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee urges candidates to adopt many of Trump\u2019s tactics, issues and approaches \u2014 right down to adjusting the way they dress and how they use Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>In the memo on \u201cthe Trump phenomenon,\u201d NRSC Executive Director Ward Baker said Republicans should embrace Trump\u2019s tough talk about China and \u201cgrab onto the best elements of [his] anti-Washington populist agenda.\u201d Above all, they should appeal to voters as genuine and beyond the influence of special interests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump has risen because voters see him as authentic, independent, direct, firm, \u2014 and believe he can\u2019t be bought,\u201d Baker writes. \u201cThese are the same character traits our candidates should be advancing in 2016. That\u2019s Trump lesson #1.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t trump The Donald, then ape him?<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s the viewpoint of those who&#8217;d escape him.<br \/>\nHow those GOP trolls<br \/>\nLong to knock down his polls.<br \/>\nWhat a shame they (like web thieves) can&#8217;t &#8220;scrape&#8221; him.<\/p>\n<p>(Info for those unfamiliar with <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rackspace.com\/dont-get-scraped-putting-an-end-to-web-scraping-content-theft\/\">&#8220;web scraping.&#8221;<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the latest Republican strategy for dealing with the scourge of Trump: In a seven-page confidential memo that imagines Trump as the party\u2019s presidential nominee, the head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee urges candidates to adopt many of Trump\u2019s tactics, issues and approaches \u2014 right down to adjusting the way they dress and how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,1550,21,20,6,7,3,9,17],"tags":[192,2897,194],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11798"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11798"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11810,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11798\/revisions\/11810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}