{"id":20949,"date":"2024-08-09T09:07:48","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T16:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=20949"},"modified":"2024-08-09T09:07:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T16:07:48","slug":"firing-line-friday-the-republican-party-and-moderates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2024\/08\/09\/firing-line-friday-the-republican-party-and-moderates\/","title":{"rendered":"Firing Line Friday: The Republican Party and Moderates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.\u2019s \u201cFiring Line\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The question of purity <em>vs<\/em>. pragmatism in politics is an old one, as this discussion between William F. Buckley, Jr., Jim Leach, and William A. Rusher concerning <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcollections.hoover.org\/objects\/6789\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Republican Party and moderates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w7Uj8gdgRrI?si=5nnisUG4LcWcZwDd\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Until next Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr.jpg 591w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Firing Line Friday: The Republican Party and Moderates\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The question of purity vs. pragmatism in politics is an old one, as this discussion between William F. 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Buckley, Jr.\u2019s \u201cFiring Line\u201d. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The question of purity vs. pragmatism in politics is an old one, as this discussion between William F. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2024\/08\/09\/firing-line-friday-the-republican-party-and-moderates\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[95,33],"class_list":["post-20949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","category-uncategorized","tag-firing-line-friday","tag-gop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20950,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20949\/revisions\/20950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}