{"id":1286,"date":"2004-02-08T13:49:45","date_gmt":"2004-02-08T20:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2004-02-08T13:49:45","modified_gmt":"2004-02-08T20:49:45","slug":"dean-as-vice-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/02\/08\/dean-as-vice-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean as Vice President?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"001859\"><\/a>I wonder if Howard Dean looks into the mirror somberly, thinks about where his campaign was two months ago, thinks about the News-weekly covers, riding to a fateful meeting with Destiny, <\/p>\n<p>then stares right into where his campaign is now, as it flails away to its sad disasterous conclusion in Wisconsin,<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if he opens his mouth, and says:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;YAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s word from the chattering classes that Dean has &#8220;not ruled out&#8221; a run as Kerry&#8217;s vice-president.  This is an absurd news-story on the face of it.  Months ago, we heard from the chattering classes some navel-gazing observations that they were in the &#8220;Silly Season&#8221; of Election-year political coverage&#8230; that, y&#8217;know: the coverage they&#8217;re entertaining about the Democratic Candidates and the speculation that they&#8217;re entertaining about what <i>might<\/i> happen or <i>could<\/i> happen if <i>this<\/i> or <i>that<\/i> happens is absurd on the face of it, but in the absense of any conclusive news, this is what they&#8217;re reporting.<\/p>\n<p>But some news for everyone: It&#8217;s <i>always<\/i> Silly Season for the Chattering Classes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder if Howard Dean looks into the mirror somberly, thinks about where his campaign was two months ago, thinks about the News-weekly covers, riding to a fateful meeting with Destiny, then stares right into where his campaign is now, as it flails away to its sad disasterous conclusion in Wisconsin, I wonder if he [&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-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","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=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}