{"id":13437,"date":"2014-08-12T00:04:26","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T07:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=13437"},"modified":"2014-08-12T00:04:26","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T07:04:26","slug":"republicans-on-parade8122014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/12\/republicans-on-parade8122014\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans on Parade&ndash;8\/12\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"RepublicansOnParade4\" style=\"float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto\" alt=\"RepublicansOnParade4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/RepublicansOnParade4.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"450\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here is the fifty-sixth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honoree is Republican nominee for Maryland&#8217;s Anne Arundel County Council, Michael Peroutka. He is so honored for criminal sedition and TEAbuggery.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0812Peroutka\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0812Peroutka\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/0812Peroutka.jpg\" width=\"360\" align=\"left\" height=\"203\" \/>A miasma of anti-science, anti-evolution, racist, homophobic, secessionist thinking has clearly fogged the brains of Republican voters in Anne Arundel, which is the home county of Maryland&#8217;s capital, Annapolis, and also home to the U.S. Naval Academy, National Security Agency, and Fort George G. Meade. <\/p>\n<p>Michael Peroutka, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicalresearch.org\/tag\/michael-peroutka\/#\" target=\"_blank\">described by Frederick Clarkson<\/a> as &quot;a party-switching theocrat&quot; (he was the presidential candidate for the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Constitution_Party_%28United_States%29#Past_presidential_tickets\" target=\"_blank\">Constitution Party in 2004<\/a>), has won his primary election.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans in Anne Arundel\u2014ostensibly with the capacity to read, write, and think\u2014voted for a man who has openly declared war on science, on the U.S. Constitution, on marriage equality, and who doesn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/07\/30\/1317953\/-Not-Just-Whistling-Dixie-Peroutka-Stands-Up-for-Southern-Secession\" target=\"_blank\">just whistle Dixie<\/a>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hFSbHEAOHsI\" target=\"_blank\">he thinks it&#8217;s the national anthem<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He has declared that the laws of the state of Maryland are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/michael-peroutka-explains-how-marriage-equality-invalidated-all-maryland-laws\">invalid<\/a>:\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/08\/10\/1318201\/-Something-is-rotten-in-Anne-Arundel-County-Maryland\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here he is in action.&#160; <\/font><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Bart Bag Alert!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hFSbHEAOHsI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If this cretin were not truly representative of the Republican Party, the Republican Party would not have nominated him.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the fifty-sixth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honoree is Republican nominee for Maryland&#8217;s Anne Arundel County Council, Michael Peroutka. He is so honored for criminal sedition and TEAbuggery. A miasma of anti-science, anti-evolution, racist, homophobic, secessionist thinking has clearly fogged <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/12\/republicans-on-parade8122014\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}