{"id":120839,"date":"2022-10-20T09:57:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T13:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=120839"},"modified":"2022-10-20T09:57:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T13:57:32","slug":"letter-wants-traditional-conservatives-to-take-back-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=120839","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: Wants traditional conservatives to take back party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>To the Editor:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Calling all Conservatives. The real ones. Not the phonies. Ones whose cornerstone values are the Constitution, the rule of law and the institutions that make those possible. When are you going to take your party back? Yes, you who used to call yourselves Republican before your brothers and sisters swallowed the Kool-Aid of Putin\u2019s puppet. And you, who still hold onto the Republican label, just because you have no place else to go, a political party without a moral core grounded in reality \u2013 not self-delusion \u2013 eventually self-destructs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am no fan of Joe Biden, but he did identify Vladimir Putin as a war criminal. Donald Trump called him a \u201cgenius.\u201d What do you think?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The big lie that Trump won the election worked well. Now it\u2019s a litmus test for \u201creal\u201d Republicans. It didn\u2019t matter that when it came time to produce evidence in open court, there was none. Believing mattered more than evidence. Intelligence has nothing to do with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why was selling the fraud so easy? Because the lie was aimed at minds who want to be lied to. Even Donald Trump was booed when he told people to get vaccinated. When you invite people like that into your party, the lunatics eventually take over the asylum. The ones who know better, but are in the game to get power, have no choice but to bobble their heads along with loonies. Courage only makes you a target. Just ask Congresswoman Liz Cheney. That is why the Republican Party today has so few moral leaders. Who\u2019s following them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The joke is anyone who challenges the delusion is called a \u201cRINO.\u201d The fact is, many real Republicans have already left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>James Tweed, Ocean City, N.J.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Editor: Calling all Conservatives. The real ones. Not the phonies. Ones whose cornerstone values are the Constitution, the rule of law and the institutions that make those possible. When are you going to take your party back? Yes, you who used to call yourselves Republican before your brothers and sisters swallowed the Kool-Aid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23678,23808,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letterstotheeditor","category-opinion","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}