{"id":4644,"date":"2008-02-07T06:43:42","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T06:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/02\/you-can-console-yourself-with.html"},"modified":"2008-02-07T06:43:42","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T06:43:42","slug":"you-can-console-yourself-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/02\/you-can-console-yourself-with.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;You can console yourself with this thought: we are going to lose no matter who we put up&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the public going nuts over a guy who has no experience, wants to &#8220;talk&#8221; to our enemies and says absolutely nothing when he speaks, it really doesn&#8217;t matter that we&#8217;re putting up a tired, cranky old liberal who will be eaten alive in the debates.  We lose no matter what. We should be turning our attention to getting Republicans elected to the Senate and the House.  We need to derail the Obama socialism agenda before it has a chance to be made law.<br \/>\nBTW, that quote is from <a href=\"http:\/\/patterico.com\/2008\/02\/06\/conservatives-special-world-is-not-representative\/\">an article<\/a> on the lack of influence of talk radio on the outcome of this election.  It&#8217;s pretty funny that Californians voted themselves another tax despite all the information from talk radio that the tax wasn&#8217;t necessary.  Not only did it pass, it passed overwhelmingly &#8212; 79%.<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the public going nuts over a guy who has no experience, wants to &#8220;talk&#8221; to our enemies and says absolutely nothing when he speaks, it really doesn&#8217;t matter that we&#8217;re putting up a tired, cranky old liberal who will be eaten alive in the debates. We lose no matter what. We should be turning&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;You can console yourself with this thought: we are going to lose no matter who we put up&quot; - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/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\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/02\/you-can-console-yourself-with.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&quot;You can console yourself with this thought: we are going to lose no matter who we put up&quot; - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With the public going nuts over a guy who has no experience, wants to &#8220;talk&#8221; to our enemies and says absolutely nothing when he speaks, it really doesn&#8217;t matter that we&#8217;re putting up a tired, cranky old liberal who will be eaten alive in the debates. 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