{"id":1107,"date":"2004-06-01T19:30:05","date_gmt":"2004-06-02T02:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2004-06-01T19:30:05","modified_gmt":"2004-06-02T02:30:05","slug":"libertarian-convention-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/06\/01\/libertarian-convention-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Libertarian Convention Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"002347\"><\/a>The Libertarian Party had two telegenic and interesting candidates.  One focused on left-wing libertarian issues &#8212; drug legalization and strong anti-war viewpoints &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.russoforpresident.com\/batm\/\">Aaron Russo<\/a>.  The other tended more toward the right-wing libertarian issues.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Nolan ended up releasing his delegates (didn&#8217;t think much of Russo, apparently), and a third &#8212; amazingly uninteresting candidate won&#8230; who&#8217;s focus (if not full spectrum of votes) pegs him down pegged down as a single-interest pro-gun guy.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m disappointed.  The Libertarian Party has let me down.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I&#8217;m stuck voting for Kerry&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Libertarian Party had two telegenic and interesting candidates. One focused on left-wing libertarian issues &#8212; drug legalization and strong anti-war viewpoints &#8230; Aaron Russo. The other tended more toward the right-wing libertarian issues. Gary Nolan ended up releasing his delegates (didn&#8217;t think much of Russo, apparently), and a third &#8212; amazingly uninteresting candidate won&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3rd-parties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}