{"id":1813,"date":"2003-10-04T20:39:50","date_gmt":"2003-10-05T10:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/05\/thank-god-we-have-republicans-to-keep-homophobia-alive\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T09:24:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T17:24:16","slug":"thank-god-we-have-republicans-to-keep-homophobia-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/04\/thank-god-we-have-republicans-to-keep-homophobia-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank God we have Republicans to keep homophobia alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13176,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.madison.com\\\/captimes\\\/news\\\/stories\\\/58128.php&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20080919035334\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.madison.com\\\/captimes\\\/news\\\/stories\\\/58128.php&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 07:29:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 07:29:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13177,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/blog.deanforamerica.com\\\/archives\\\/001760.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>From an (admittedly wonderfully written, if one has the brain cells to read between the lines) article about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison.com\/captimes\/news\/stories\/58128.php\" title=\"Young Republicans get to see their hero\">Wisconsin pro-Bush\/anti-Dean rally<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Tom O&#8217;Day, chairman of the Republican Party of Dane County, offered a free copy of former Gov.\u00a0Tommy Thompson&#8217;s book, &#8220;Power to the People,&#8221; and a button to the person who came up with the cleverest anti-Dean poster. The aroma of markers filled the bus, as the students searched aloud for words that rhyme with &#8220;Dean.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  &#91;&#8230;&#93;<\/p>\n<p>  &#8230;back on the bus driving through a cold rain, the students were both energized and weary. A good bit into the trip, O&#8217;Day stood and said it was time to choose a winner of the anti-Howard Dean poster contest.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;All in favor of, &#8216;Dean is a Ween, Don&#8217;t Bring it to My Bush&#8217;?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  No applause.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Dean Can&#8217;t Measure Up, Four More Years&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>  Mild applause.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Dean&#8217;s a Queen, Vote Bush&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>  Very mild applause.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;I think the queen&#8217;s got it,&#8221; O&#8217;Day said, delivering the Tommy Thompson book to the young woman in the back of the bus who created the poster. She would not reveal her name.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.deanforamerica.com\/archives\/001760.html\" title=\"Wisconsin for Dean Responds to Republican Plans To Protest Dean Visit Tomorrow\">Joe Rospars<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dean&#8217;s a Queen, Vote Bush<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}