{"id":1358,"date":"2006-10-03T20:23:26","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T20:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2006-10-03T20:23:26","modified_gmt":"2006-10-03T20:23:26","slug":"true_to_form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1358","title":{"rendered":"True To Form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It should be no surprise that, in these last few weeks leading up to the election, Republicans are spinning the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/POLITICS\/09\/29\/congressman.e.mails\/index.html\">Foley imbroglio<\/a> into an indictment against the gay community.&nbsp; The only way the GOP can minimize its losses on November 7 is to motivate its conservative base.&nbsp; And nothing motivates the base like a little <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2006\/10\/03\/foley-anti-gay\/\">gay bashing<\/a>.&nbsp; Never mind that sexual orientation and sexual predation are two entirely different things.&nbsp; Never mind that plenty of heterosexual men prey upon young girls.&nbsp; The real crux of the Foley story is the failure of the Republican leadership to confront a pedophile in their midst when the first warning signs were brought to their attention, but the conservative echo chamber would rather plug their ears with their fingers and scream &#8220;faggot!&#8221; in the hopes that will somehow deflect attention from their inaction.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>This incident should be an instructive lesson for Democrats.&nbsp; We were crushed in 1994 because our elected leaders had allowed themselves to be consumed with hubris and an unchecked desire for power.&nbsp; When political fortunes do swing again in our favor, we progressives have to remain vigilant and not let our leaders make the same mistake twice.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It should be no surprise that, in these last few weeks leading up to the election, Republicans are spinning the Foley imbroglio into an indictment against the gay community.&nbsp; The only way the GOP can minimize its losses on November 7 is to motivate its conservative base.&nbsp; And nothing motivates the base like a little <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1358' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-lU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}