{"id":1270,"date":"2004-02-13T16:21:24","date_gmt":"2004-02-13T23:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2004-02-13T16:21:24","modified_gmt":"2004-02-13T23:21:24","slug":"chockful-of-virtues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/02\/13\/chockful-of-virtues\/","title":{"rendered":"Chockful of Virtues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"001892\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/political_wrap\/jan-june04\/sb_02-11.html\">Mark Shields<\/a>, courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/billmon.org\/archives\/001043.html\">Billmon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll focus on the last sentence of the larger-themed &#8220;Party Unified&#8221; quote:<\/p>\n<p><i>I have never seen the Democratic Party as united as it is, they&#8217;re discovering virtues in John Kerry that his mother never knew existed.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Yes indeed.  A career politician who&#8217;s been running for president since 1972, duplicitous and rather&#8211; how do we say &#8212; career equivicator (in large measure)&#8230; Meet John Kerry.<\/p>\n<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/news\/archive\/2004\/02\/11\/politics1425EST0688.DTL\">Howard Dean<\/a> apparently doesn&#8217;t agree&#8230; at least not <i>yet<\/i>.  That should change fairly shortly, however.  At least publicly.<\/p>\n<p>But Dean needs to give it up.  Resign himself to figuring out what the heck a &#8220;Dean Democrat&#8221; is and lend his support to them in particular in the 2004 races&#8230; and the party in general (though they don&#8217;t really like him).  Resign himself to whatever the hell <a href=\"http:\/\/www.changeforamerica.com\/blog\/\">Joe Trippi<\/a> is trying to do.  Resign himself to a Senate run whenever Jim Jeffords or Patrick Leahy decides to retire.  Or so goes my amateur analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry.  Kerry.  Kerry.  <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re also entering that phase of a political campaign where <i>there is no news until October.<\/i>  With the, um, exception of the picking of the vice-president.  But then again, politics is essentially devoid of meaning anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Loads of fun all around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Shields, courtesy of Billmon: I&#8217;ll focus on the last sentence of the larger-themed &#8220;Party Unified&#8221; quote: I have never seen the Democratic Party as united as it is, they&#8217;re discovering virtues in John Kerry that his mother never knew existed.&#8221; Yes indeed. A career politician who&#8217;s been running for president since 1972, duplicitous and [&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-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","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=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}