{"id":1246,"date":"2004-02-29T13:48:49","date_gmt":"2004-02-29T20:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2004-02-29T13:48:49","modified_gmt":"2004-02-29T20:48:49","slug":"1996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/02\/29\/1996\/","title":{"rendered":"1996"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"001956\"><\/a>My mother is dismayed when Pat Buchannan wins the New Hampshire primary.  &#8220;What is wrong with the Republican party?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea what her thoughts were in 1988 when Pat Robertson won the Washington Caucuses.<\/p>\n<p>Flash forward a few weeks.  Bob Dole either firmly reasserts himself from the Steve Forbes &#8212; Pat Buchannan  (Lamar Alexandar is a distant memory), and my mother is satisfied.<\/p>\n<p>Flash forward to November.  Jack Kemp has waved his influence on the campaign, or maybe Bob Dole is just getting a little desparate.  Bob Dole has offered a 15% tax cut.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton is out of the question.  (I know I wouldn&#8217;t vote for him.)<\/p>\n<p>I say (probably best described during my teen years as a political nihilist), &#8220;You could vote for Perot.&#8221;  (I do know what she thinks about Perot.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Egomaniac.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You could vote for Nader.  He once crashed a Pinto!&#8221;  (My high school Auto teacher did a rant on Nader, though I don&#8217;t know what pushed him to rant about Nader.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I may just well do so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If I had to guess I say she voted for Dole.  But it doesn&#8217;t really matter anyway, because she voted after the national media announced that Clinton had won the thing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mother is dismayed when Pat Buchannan wins the New Hampshire primary. &#8220;What is wrong with the Republican party?&#8217; I have no idea what her thoughts were in 1988 when Pat Robertson won the Washington Caucuses. Flash forward a few weeks. Bob Dole either firmly reasserts himself from the Steve Forbes &#8212; Pat Buchannan (Lamar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-ground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246","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=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}