{"id":1701,"date":"2003-09-18T12:18:20","date_gmt":"2003-09-18T19:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/09\/signs-of-life\/"},"modified":"2003-09-18T12:18:20","modified_gmt":"2003-09-18T19:18:20","slug":"signs-of-life-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/18\/signs-of-life-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs of life"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tUnlike George Will, LA Times columnist George Skelton understands California politics. Skelton’s impressed that Cal Reeps are piping down<\/a> on social issues, evidenced by the recent state convention:<\/p>\n

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Said Assemblyman Ray Haynes of Murrieta, another unabashed conservative who backs Schwarzenegger: “We social folks realize that being in your face all the time is a turnoff.”<\/p>\n

Haynes says “pro-choice” and “right-to-life” Republicans have reached an “accord.” The former will help move the latter’s agenda when there’s no political cost, and the latter will stop constantly harassing the former — like slipping those “baby killer” fliers under delegates’ doors.<\/p>\n

If Republicans really have stopped railing about social issues, the politicians and activists who will miss it most are Democrats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

These are signs of intelligence, showing that even the hard right can learn a lesson every once in a while. Let’s hope it sticks.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unlike George Will, LA Times columnist George Skelton understands California politics. Skelton’s impressed that Cal Reeps are piping down on social issues, evidenced by the recent state convention: Said Assemblyman Ray Haynes of Murrieta, another unabashed conservative who backs Schwarzenegger: “We social folks realize that being in your face all the time is a turnoff.” … Continue reading “Signs of life”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-rr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}