{"id":3589,"date":"2010-08-13T03:16:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T07:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=3589"},"modified":"2010-08-13T03:19:54","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T07:19:54","slug":"offbeat-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/08\/13\/offbeat-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Offbeat&#8221; On The Politico Beat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Politico <\/em>poses this query in the title of an article about extremist Republican candidates such as Rand Paul, Sharron Angle, and Dan Maes: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0810\/40978.html\">&#8220;Will its offbeat candidates hurt GOP?&#8221;<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Offbeat?  Talk about an understatement!<\/p>\n<p>While the article does include less euphemistic language, like &#8220;downright strange&#8221; and &#8220;deeply unusual,&#8221; it does little to address the radical, extremist planks of these Republican nominees.<\/p>\n<p>That brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOffbeat\u201d On The Politico Beat<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Politico&#8217;s pulled off a feat<br \/>\nIn describing the wingnut elite.<br \/>\nMaes and Angle and Paul<br \/>\nAre not radicals all.<br \/>\nThese extremists are merely &#8220;offbeat.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico poses this query in the title of an article about extremist Republican candidates such as Rand Paul, Sharron Angle, and Dan Maes: &#8220;Will its offbeat candidates hurt GOP?&#8221; Offbeat? Talk about an understatement! While the article does include less euphemistic language, like &#8220;downright strange&#8221; and &#8220;deeply unusual,&#8221; it does little to address the radical, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,21,20,26,6,7,3,1317,9,69],"tags":[192,1381,194,1383,1382,2763,275,1024,2880,702,1341,1177,2784],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589"}],"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=3589"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3620,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589\/revisions\/3620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}