{"id":576,"date":"2008-05-05T06:37:54","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T10:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=576"},"modified":"2008-08-31T16:01:12","modified_gmt":"2008-08-31T20:01:12","slug":"complaining-about-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=576","title":{"rendered":"Complaining about politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are several newspaper articles and opinion columns popping up over the past several days complaining about this past legislative session. It’s nice to see that the majority of them that I’ve seen have been lumping the evolution bills in with the Truck Nutz and I Believe license plate bad idea garbage. Not everyone feels that way<\/a>, though.<\/p>\n

[James A.] Smith, [the executive editor of the Florida Baptist Witness] said that moderate Republicans — dubbed RINOs, for “Republican in Name Only” — who voted against the abortion and evolution bills would have to be defeated by social conservatives to win future legislative battles.<\/p>\n

“Until one of these RINO Republicans gets taken out, there’s not going to be much reason from them to believe there’s any accountability to be feared for voting against religious conservatives,” Smith said. “Whether or not religious conservatives are not as influential as they were once believed to be kind of remains to be seen.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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