{"id":6081,"date":"2008-06-16T23:14:05","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T06:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6081"},"modified":"2008-06-19T19:54:15","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T02:54:15","slug":"if-you-lose-the-white-house-do-the-rest-of-us-have-to-allow-you-to-stay-in-our-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6081","title":{"rendered":"If You Lose the White House Do the Rest of Us Have to Allow you to Stay in our Country?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/ObamaPresident_WhiteHouse_TXGOPConvention.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Who says Republicans don&#8217;t have class? From the <i>Dallas Morning News<\/i> blog&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com\/archives\/2008\/06\/stick-a-pin-in-it.html\">report<\/a> on the Texas GOP state convention&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">While a number of speakers &#8212; such as Railroad Commission chairman Michael Williams and Mike Huckabee &#8212; have praised the advance of Barack Obama and what it means towards a colorblind society, at least one vendor hasn&#8217;t gotten the message.<\/p>\n<p>At the Republican state convention, a booth hosted by Republicanmarket was selling a pin Saturday that says: If Obama is President will we still call it the White House.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in their items, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.republicanmarket.com\/store\/home\">their website is here<\/a>.  Their slogan: &#8220;Patriotic and Republican Products at Republican Market.&#8221; I guess the above is an example of one of the Republican products. No clue if they&#8217;ve actually got any patriotic ones.<\/p>\n<p>But if you&#8217;d like to find out about that, or anything else, you can email them at: <a href=\"mailto:sales@republicanmarket.com\">sales@republicanmarket.com<\/a>. More info on this impressive outfit is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.republicanmarket.com\/store\/home\">available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(<i>Hat-tip <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\">BRAD BLOG<\/a> reader GM<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong><\/em> Our friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogactive.com\/\">Mike Rogers<\/a> points out that Republicanmarket doesn&#8217;t bother to show that particular button on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.republicanmarket.com\/store\/cat\/21.Buttons\">the buttons page<\/a> at their slimy website for some reason. Go figure. Not sure why, since, as <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6081&#038;preview=true#comment-358018\">commenter Creid<\/a> points out, they aren&#8217;t embarrassed about running <a href=\"http:\/\/www.republicanmarket.com\/store\/item\/20252.KFC.Hillary.Special.Bumpersticker\">this sexist garbage<\/a>. Again, very very classy stuff.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>UPDATE 6\/19\/08:<\/strong><\/em> The Texas GOP distances themselves from Republicanmarket.com, bans vendor from future events. <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6094\">Details now here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who says Republicans don&#8217;t have class? From the Dallas Morning News blog&#8217;s report on the Texas GOP state convention&#8230; While a number of speakers &#8212; such as Railroad Commission chairman Michael Williams and Mike Huckabee &#8212; have praised the advance of Barack Obama and what it means towards a colorblind society, at least one vendor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239,122,300,47],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-election-2008","category-republicans","category-texas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6081"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}