{"id":1222,"date":"2004-03-15T04:56:07","date_gmt":"2004-03-15T11:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2004-03-15T04:56:07","modified_gmt":"2004-03-15T11:56:07","slug":"2008-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/03\/15\/2008-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 and Beyond&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"002023\"><\/a>For the Democrats, the presidential hopes of many hang on what happens in 2004, but the Republicans seem rather&#8230; settled on who the big-wigs in the smokey rooms have set up to send down the pike.<\/p>\n<p>Brief excerpt stolen from another blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tallahassee.com\/mld\/tallahassee\/news\/local\/8185406.htm\"><i>&#8220;We are not saying that he is absolutely running, but we&#8217;re saying that there are plans being made,&#8221; Peter Schweizer said in an exclusive interview with the Tallahassee Democrat before the book&#8217;s full contents are released next month. &#8220;Jeb has talked to his mother about his financial situation, in the context of running for president. So we know that within the family, they&#8217;re talking about the realities of running.&#8221;<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Republicans Priming and Being Primed for the Presidency<\/p>\n<p>(1) Jeb Bush<br \/>\n(2) Bill Frist<br \/>\n(3) Arnold Schwarzenegger<\/p>\n<p>It war clear as early as the 1998 mid-term elections (and perhaps even 1996&#8217;s election) that the Bush Brothers were coming down the pike.  I recall reading a George Carlin piece online back in &#8217;98 marvelling on the coming Bushes&#8230; (somewhere plugged into the bit that we all know deep down that the country is run on bullshit, and Clinton won in &#8217;96 &#8217;cause he was honest about his bullshit, unlike Dole.)<\/p>\n<p>As for Arnold&#8230; well, first there&#8217;s the matter of changing the constitution&#8230; which, I suppose, would have some muscle-room competition with that other constitutional amendment hopping about (and going nowhere fast, though int its semi-defense it&#8217;s not designed to go anywhere.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the Democrats, the presidential hopes of many hang on what happens in 2004, but the Republicans seem rather&#8230; settled on who the big-wigs in the smokey rooms have set up to send down the pike. Brief excerpt stolen from another blog: &#8220;We are not saying that he is absolutely running, but we&#8217;re saying that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222","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=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}