{"id":2097,"date":"2010-05-13T10:42:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T14:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2097"},"modified":"2010-05-13T10:42:56","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T14:42:56","slug":"add-laura-bush-to-the-list-of-republican-progressives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/05\/13\/add-laura-bush-to-the-list-of-republican-progressives\/","title":{"rendered":"Add Laura Bush to the list of Republican progressives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2098\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/05\/13\/add-laura-bush-to-the-list-of-republican-progressives\/laura\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2098\" title=\"laura\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2010\/05\/laura.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2010\/05\/laura.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2010\/05\/laura-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A while ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/01\/22\/a-quiet-revolution-of-gop-progressives\/\">I blogged about the growing number of high-profile Republicans<\/a> who are embracing things like same-sex marriage and legal abortion.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re swimming against the generally conservative tide of the modern GOP.<\/p>\n<p>Well, add former first lady Laura Bush to the list.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Larry King on CNN this week, Bush acknowledged that she is pro-choice and supports same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n<p>(Apologies for the <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5537159\/laura-bush-homo+loving-abortionist\">snarky link to the video<\/a> &#8211; Gawker is the only source I can find.)<\/p>\n<p>Bush says she thinks same-sex marriage will happen, calling it a &#8216;generational thing&#8217; that &#8220;will come.&#8217;\u00a0 She says she quietly urged her husband to downplay the issue in the 2004 political campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding abortion, Bush said point-blank:\u00a0 &#8220;I think it&#8217;s important that it remain legal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bush says she disagrees with former President Bush on these issues but &#8220;understands&#8221; his more conservative view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago, I blogged about the growing number of high-profile Republicans who are embracing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}