{"id":57,"date":"2006-11-08T10:27:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T10:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jwalking\/2006\/11\/rncs-soul.html"},"modified":"2006-11-08T10:27:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T10:27:00","slug":"rncs-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jwalking\/2006\/11\/rncs-soul.html","title":{"rendered":"The RNC&#8217;s soul&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the central talking point coming out of the RNC this morning:<\/p>\n<p>    + We need to refocus on our conservative principles of less government, lower taxes, less regulation, strong national defense, judicial restraint, and fiscal conservatism. We have a very vibrant and strong party and a philosophy that works. We just have to recommit ourselves to better serving the American people.<\/p>\n<p>Compassion?  No.  <\/p>\n<p>Social conservative issues?  No.<\/p>\n<p>That <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpjustice.org\/stories\/storyreader$383\">&#8220;Duty of Hope&#8221;<\/a> speech by a Texas governor in 1999 looks ever more like an anomaly.  <\/p>\n<p>This is the soulless agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the central talking point coming out of the RNC this morning: + We need to refocus on our conservative principles of less government, lower taxes, less regulation, strong national defense, judicial restraint, and fiscal conservatism. We have a very vibrant and strong party and a philosophy that works. We just have to recommit&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The RNC&#039;s soul... - J Walking<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jwalking\/2006\/11\/rncs-soul.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The RNC&#039;s soul... - J Walking\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here are the central talking point coming out of the RNC this morning: + We need to refocus on our conservative principles of less government, lower taxes, less regulation, strong national defense, judicial restraint, and fiscal conservatism. 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