{"id":1955,"date":"2011-04-21T09:21:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T17:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=1955"},"modified":"2011-04-21T09:21:04","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T17:21:04","slug":"gop-hoping-to-sweep-the-%e2%80%9cbirther%e2%80%9d-theory-under-the-rug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/gop-hoping-to-sweep-the-%e2%80%9cbirther%e2%80%9d-theory-under-the-rug\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP HOPING TO SWEEP THE \u201cBIRTHER\u201d THEORY UNDER THE RUG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/romney.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1956\" title=\"romney\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/romney-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/romney-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/romney-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/romney-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/romney-55x55.jpg 55w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Washington, D.C. &#8211; Many in the Republican party are hoping to get rid of  the debunked \u201cbirther\u201d theory, which touts President Obama is  ineligible to be president because he was not born on US soil.\u00a0Although the theory was almost just a silly notion, it\u2019s been shoved back to the forefront by GOP hopeful, Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Most in the party feel this type of negative conspiracy campaigning will  only lend itself to hurting the GOP. They feel this may give the  appearance the party has nothing to offer voters except old disproven  extreme-right talking points.<\/p>\n<p>The two most likely Republican 2012 presidential candidates, Mitt Romney  and Tim Pawlenty, have agreed that President Obama is a US citizen and  eligible for his presidency; in hopes to prevent voters from being  distracted from the issues.<\/p>\n<p>Even Jan Brewer is trying to remove herself from the \u201cbirther\u201d movement by vetoing the \u201cbirther\u201d bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. &#8211; Many in the Republican party are hoping to get rid of the debunked \u201cbirther\u201d theory, which touts President Obama is ineligible to be president because he was not born on US soil.\u00a0Although&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1097,1099,1100,1098],"class_list":["post-1955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-news","tag-birther","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop","tag-mitt-romney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1958,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions\/1958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}