{"id":15623,"date":"2016-07-13T17:11:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T00:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=15623"},"modified":"2016-07-13T17:11:47","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T00:11:47","slug":"ah-for-the-days-of-yore-when-this-sounded-like-a-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2016\/07\/13\/ah-for-the-days-of-yore-when-this-sounded-like-a-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Ah, for the days of yore when this sounded like a joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A blast from the past&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2014\/04\/30\/exciting-oregon-first-district-republican-congressional-republican-race-heating-up\/\">a post at this very blog from April 2014<\/a>, concerning candidate Bob Niemeyer who, based on <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Bob_Niemeyer\">losing two Republican primaries<\/a>, I suppose can mean we can call him a &#8220;perennial candidate&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wweek.com\/portland\/article-22478-don%E2%80%99t_piss_it_away.html?current_page=3\" data-slimstat-type=\"0\" data-slimstat-callback=\"true\" data-slimstat-tracking=\"true\">Hm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Bob Niemeyer, a mechanical engineer, says his top goal is defending the U.S. Constitution\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand would do so by rewriting it to create a fourth branch of the federal government, an executive called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the principal.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In Niemeyer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s redesign of the Constitution, the principal could veto any financial decision by the president or Congress. Niemeyer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s choice for the job: Donald Trump.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what the Founding Fathers had in mind.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Well, if things go wrong for Trump in the coming November elections&#8230;<br \/>\nGiven that Trump stomped his way through Oregon, why didn&#8217;t everyone line up for Niemeyer (Trump&#8217;s Biggest Fan) in the 2016 Republican gubernatorial nominating election?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blast from the past&#8230; a post at this very blog from April 2014, concerning candidate Bob Niemeyer who, based on losing two Republican primaries, I suppose can mean we can call him a &#8220;perennial candidate&#8221;&#8230; &#8230;&#8230;. Hm. Bob Niemeyer, a mechanical engineer, says his top goal is defending the U.S. Constitution\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand would do so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15623","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=15623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15624,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15623\/revisions\/15624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}