{"id":431,"date":"2011-08-15T13:06:02","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T17:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/?p=431"},"modified":"2011-08-15T13:06:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T17:06:02","slug":"turkeys-in-the-straw-republican-candidates-square-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/15\/turkeys-in-the-straw-republican-candidates-square-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkeys in the Straw: Republican Candidates Square off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Iowa) Fish and Cheese reports from the Iowa Straw poll, which has been described by the NY Times as &#8220;one part political convention and one part county fair&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VsnZxfkkoKQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This year Skinny Guy Who Plays the Penny Whistle narrowly defeated Fat Guy Who Plays the Jug in this contest.<\/p>\n<p>Although seen by fringe candidates by some, Skinny Guy Who Plays the Penny Whistle points out that their positions on many issues are not that stranger than many of the major Republican candidates.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_432\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/jugWhistle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-432\" src=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/jugWhistle.jpg\" alt=\"Country Band\" title=\"jugWhistle\" width=\"584\" height=\"341\" class=\"size-full wp-image-432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/jugWhistle.jpg 584w, https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/jugWhistle-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-432\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Turkeys in the Straw: Republican Candidates at the Ames Straw Poll<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just like Michele Bachmann, I don&#8217;t believe in minimum wage laws.  Work &#8217;em to death and let &#8217;em sleep in pig sties, I say.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_433\" style=\"width: 538px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/strawGuysSinging.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-433\" src=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/strawGuysSinging.jpg\" alt=\"Fat Guy With Jug and Skinny Guy with Straw in Mout\" title=\"strawGuysSinging\" width=\"528\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-full wp-image-433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/strawGuysSinging.jpg 528w, https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/strawGuysSinging-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-433\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Two Winners of the 2012 Republican Iowa Straw Poll<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n&#8220;That&#8217;s right,&#8221; agreed Fat Guy Who Plays the Jug.  &#8220;And like Ron Paul, I don&#8217;t even support the Civil Rights Act of 1964.  The government shouldn&#8217;t be able to tell us who to discriminate against on this here farm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In fact,&#8221; added Skinny Guy Who Plays the Penny Whistle, leaning forward in a conspiratorial way, &#8220;If you think about it, us Republicans are taking things back to the good &#8216;ol days of slavery anyway&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Iowa) Fish and Cheese reports from the Iowa Straw poll, which has been described by the NY Times as &#8220;one part political convention and one part county fair&#8221; This year Skinny Guy Who Plays the Penny Whistle narrowly defeated Fat &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/15\/turkeys-in-the-straw-republican-candidates-square-off\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[208,121,206,209,35,207,210,205],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-videos","tag-civil-rights","tag-iowa","tag-michele-bachmann","tag-minimum-wage","tag-republicans","tag-ron-paul","tag-slavery","tag-straw-poll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}