{"id":474882,"date":"2010-03-26T11:20:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T15:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=80464"},"modified":"2010-03-26T11:20:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T15:20:15","slug":"explaining-sarah-palin%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98don%e2%80%99t-retreat-reload%e2%80%99-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/474882","title":{"rendered":"Explaining Sarah Palin\u2019s \u2018Don\u2019t Retreat, Reload\u2019 Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t joined the dogpile on Sarah Palin&#8217;s response to the health care reform vote &#8212; she set up a page of vulnerable Democrats that displayed target signs on their districts &#8212; because Palin&#8217;s been using this rhetoric for her entire career in national politics. This tweet, for example, has <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/SarahPalinUSA\/statuses\/10935548053\">quickly become<\/a> infamous:<span id=\"more-80464\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-80466\" title=\"Picture 29\" src=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-29-480x199.png\" alt=\"Picture 29\" width=\"480\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s a reference to what, according to Palin, is a family witticism. The final chapter of &#8220;Going Rogue&#8221; begins with a quote from her father, Chuck Heath:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Sarah&#8217;s not retreating; she&#8217;s reloading!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I think Palin&#8217;s gotten tripped up by the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/80548\/conservatives-attack-double-standard-on-health-care-threats\">same thing flummoxing<\/a> other conservatives this week &#8212; in the context of angry threats against pro-health care Democrats, the revolutionary rhetoric of the GOP this last year sounds&#8230; well, revolutionary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t joined the dogpile on Sarah Palin&#8217;s response to the health care reform vote &#8212; she set up a page of vulnerable Democrats that displayed target signs on their districts &#8212; because Palin&#8217;s been using this rhetoric for her entire career in national politics. This tweet, for example, has quickly become infamous: But that&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}