{"id":307,"date":"2008-02-28T07:18:52","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T12:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=307"},"modified":"2008-02-28T09:57:25","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T14:57:25","slug":"pathological-idiocy-mark-steyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=307","title":{"rendered":"Pathological idiocy: Mark Steyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Steyn of the <em>National Review<\/em> proves once and for all that he has <a href=\"http:\/\/article.nationalreview.com\/print\/?q=ZjA4NTk1NTk4Yjg2MDdmNDU5Nzg5Y2MzNWU3ZDViOGQ=\">no idea<\/a> how liberals, Democrats, or non-ideologues think with this surreal observation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With hindsight, the oral sex was a master stroke. Bill Clinton likes to tell anyone who\u2019ll listen that he governed as an \u201cEisenhower Republican,\u201d which is kind of true \u2014 NAFTA, welfare reform, etc. If you have to have a Democrat in the Oval Office, he was as good as it gets for Republicans \u2014 if you don\u2019t mind the fact that he\u2019s a draft-dodging non-inhaling sex fiend. Republicans <em>did<\/em> mind, of course, which is why Dems rallied round out of boomer culture-war solidarity. But, if he hadn\u2019t been dropping his pants and appealing to so many of their social pathologies, his party wouldn\u2019t have been half so enthusiastic for another chorus of \u201cI Like Ike.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Steyn&#8217;s proof of this rather unusual point: &#8220;Hillary is what the Clintons look like with their pants up&#8221; &#8211; and she is losing.  Therefore, most liberals supported Mr. Clinton because of his sexual escapades.<\/p>\n<p>The logic used here is impeccable.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Steyn of the National Review proves once and for all that he has no idea how liberals, Democrats, or non-ideologues think with this surreal observation: With hindsight, the oral sex was a master stroke. Bill Clinton likes to tell anyone who\u2019ll listen that he governed as an \u201cEisenhower Republican,\u201d which is kind of true [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":""},"categories":[22,41,4,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-liberalism","category-politics","category-the-clintons"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-4X","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}