{"id":6715,"date":"2010-08-24T07:44:52","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T14:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=6715"},"modified":"2010-08-24T07:44:52","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T14:44:52","slug":"bob-dole-is-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/08\/24\/bob-dole-is-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Dole is on Fire."},"content":{"rendered":"

Newsmax aims its vitrol at Bob Dole<\/a>:
\nThe statement came the same day Washington Examiner columnist Timothy P. Carney revealed that former senator and Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole contributed $1,000 to Crist’s Senate campaign against GOP nominee Marco Rubio. Carney provided the Federal Election Commission record documenting Dole’s cash donation.<\/em><\/p>\n

Bob Dole is busting out all over!<\/p>\n

Chuck Hagel is endorsing Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 This will surely galvanize the Nebraskans who live in Pennsylvania around Sestak, a crucial swing vote in the state.\u00c2\u00a0 It is telling that the coverage on Hagel’e endorsement runs to the “what is he trying to purchase” route — a job in the Obama Pentagon? — as opposed to something about favoring Sestak.<\/p>\n

Meantime, the culture war was declared dead a few months ago by Mitch Daniels, if I recall.\u00c2\u00a0 Oddly, a hub-ub over a mosque in New York City.\u00c2\u00a0 Another one in Kentucky<\/a>, somewhere quite far from “Ground Zero”.\u00c2\u00a0 I grow weary.\u00c2\u00a0 Either we’re making distinctions about Islam in the “War on Terror”, or we’re not.\u00c2\u00a0 Either<\/a>… Either<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Actually that last link posits an interesting point.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ve two Republican “star” Indians — soon to be Governor Haley, and Governor Jindal.\u00c2\u00a0 Bobby Jindal proved his converted Christian bonafides — though by way of Catholicism, in Catholic state of Louisiana — by performing an exorcism.\u00c2\u00a0 Haley had to do this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So we have Jeff Merkley<\/a>, Senator of Oregon.\u00c2\u00a0 We have Al Franken<\/a>, Senator of Minnesota.\u00c2\u00a0 Neither are Reid, Schumer, or Durbin — the Democratic Leaders in the Senate — both kind of marginally deigned by our political conventional wisdom.<\/p>\n

Today’s Primary day.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ll be closely watching the meaningless Republican run-off in Oklahoma to decide who loses to Representative Boren in November<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Newsmax aims its vitrol at Bob Dole: The statement came the same day Washington Examiner columnist Timothy P. Carney revealed that former senator and Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole contributed $1,000 to Crist’s Senate campaign against GOP nominee Marco Rubio. Carney provided the Federal Election Commission record documenting Dole’s cash donation. Bob Dole is busting […]<\/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-6715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6715","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=6715"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6717,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6715\/revisions\/6717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}