{"id":679,"date":"2005-04-24T13:44:40","date_gmt":"2005-04-24T20:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=679"},"modified":"2005-04-24T13:44:40","modified_gmt":"2005-04-24T20:44:40","slug":"bernie-sanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2005\/04\/24\/bernie-sanders\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"003406\"><\/a>&#8220;There is one Socialist in the House of Representatives.  But he&#8217;s more or less a liberal Democrat.  Why doesn&#8217;t he run as a Liberal Democrat?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How much credibility does that bring if he runs and wins as a Socialist?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I mention this because Jim Jeffords, the ex-moderate Republican turned Democratic-caucusing Independent, has announced his retirement.  Bernie Sanders, the Socialist Party Democratic-caucusing Representative of the state, is the front runner for this newly open seat &#8212; and probably the only Republican who could possibly defeat him is current Republican governor Jim Douglas.<\/p>\n<p>Which means in 2006, more than likely, the Republican Party is going to have a new &#8220;Most Hated Senator&#8221; to take the place of Liberal Ted Kennedy or constantly-triangulating Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>As per Bernie Sanders, he hasn&#8217;t been a true Socialist since his days of Mayor of Burlington.  Or so I once saw a scribbling from either a Sanders supporter or a Sanders detractor.  (And I don&#8217;t believe he has any weight from an official national party, thus&#8230; he&#8217;s always labelled in the media as &#8220;Independant&#8221;.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There is one Socialist in the House of Representatives. But he&#8217;s more or less a liberal Democrat. Why doesn&#8217;t he run as a Liberal Democrat?&#8221; &#8220;How much credibility does that bring if he runs and wins as a Socialist?&#8221; I mention this because Jim Jeffords, the ex-moderate Republican turned Democratic-caucusing Independent, has announced his retirement. [&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-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","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=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}