{"id":8389,"date":"2013-03-15T21:31:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T21:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=8389"},"modified":"2013-03-15T22:20:08","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T22:20:08","slug":"ready-to-lose-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/ready-to-lose-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready to Lose in 2016?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can understand the argument that religion can be a handy bulwark against an over-mighty and over-intrusive state (it can, incidentally, also be an <em>ally<\/em> of just such a state), but there is a limit as to how far that argument can be pushed, and in this speech to CPAC Rick Santorum has just crashed through it (not for the first time in his case) into a twilight zone of demagoguery, hysteria and madly Manchicean either\/or.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K7ROQkA0694\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m no fan of Obama, to put it mildly, but to claim that he wants to create a &#8220;Godless&#8221; America is not only silly (in fact, if anything Obama would probably want to recruit God as some sort of assistant, a super-Biden upstairs, in his attempt to transform the country) but is language almost certainly guaranteed to alienate yet more of the voters that the GOP needs to be winning over.<\/p>\n<p>Bad thinking. Bad Argument. Bad Tactics.<\/p>\n<p>Trifecta.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Rick Santorum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can understand the argument that religion can be a handy bulwark against an over-mighty and over-intrusive state (it can, incidentally, also be an ally of just such a state), but there is a limit as to how far that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/ready-to-lose-in-2016\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[746,15],"tags":[979,776],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8389"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8398,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8389\/revisions\/8398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}