{"id":7681,"date":"2010-02-02T22:05:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T06:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7681"},"modified":"2010-02-03T01:25:09","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T09:25:09","slug":"self-identified-republicans-acorn-stole-the-election-palin-more-qualified-than-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7681","title":{"rendered":"Self-Identified Republicans: ACORN Stole the Election, Palin More Qualified than Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/GOP_Nuts.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Seriously, the Republican Party wasn&#8217;t <i>always<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2010\/2\/2\/832988\/-The-2010-Comprehensive-Daily-Kos-Research-2000-Poll-of-Self-Identified-Republicans\">this whacked out<\/a>, crazy and utterly misinformed, were they? <i>Were<\/i> they?!<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Kos has enlisted the &#8220;non-partisan independent pollster Research 2000&#8221; to survey &#8220;over 2,000 self-identified Republicans.&#8221; The results of which, I&#8217;ll have to agree with Kos here, are &#8220;nothing short of startling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Writes Kos: &#8220;Ultimately, these results explain why it is impossible for elected Republicans to work with Democrats to improve our country. Their base are conspiracy mongers who don&#8217;t believe Obama was born in the United States, that he is the second coming of Lenin, and that he is racist against white people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Just one case in point likely to be of interest to readers of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\">The BRAD BLOG<\/a> (and there are many others, <i>far<\/i> more extreme), one in five (21%) of self-identified Republicans believe ACORN stole the 2008 election. Another 55% are &#8220;not sure&#8221; if they did or not.  Still waiting for any one of them to present even a shred of evidence to suggest that even a <i>single<\/i> vote was cast fraudulently via ACORN in some way, of course. For the record, Obama reportedly won by about 10 million of them nationally. You think we&#8217;d have <i>some<\/i> kind of evidence by now from the &#8220;Fox &#8216;News&#8217; Voter Fraud Unit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also, according to the poll, a majority of Republicans, 53%, believe &#8220;Sarah Palin is more qualified to be President than Barack Obama.&#8221; Sigh&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>How many elected Democrats will have to lose their jobs in 2010 and 2012 before they figure out who\/what they&#8217;re dealing with in this once-Grand, now just utterly insane (actually, just successfully and expensively <i>disinformed<\/i>) Old Party?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2010\/2\/2\/832988\/-The-2010-Comprehensive-Daily-Kos-Research-2000-Poll-of-Self-Identified-Republicans\"><i>Poll &#8220;high&#8221;lights are here&#8230;<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, the Republican Party wasn&#8217;t always this whacked out, crazy and utterly misinformed, were they? Were they?! The Daily Kos has enlisted the &#8220;non-partisan independent pollster Research 2000&#8221; to survey &#8220;over 2,000 self-identified Republicans.&#8221; The results of which, I&#8217;ll have to agree with Kos here, are &#8220;nothing short of startling.&#8221; Writes Kos: &#8220;Ultimately, these results [&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":[393,405,358,122,14,188,300,388],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acorn","category-bush-legacy","category-daily-kos","category-election-2008","category-fox-news","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-republicans","category-sarah-palin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7681","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=7681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7681"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}