{"id":862,"date":"2004-10-27T10:36:06","date_gmt":"2004-10-27T17:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=862"},"modified":"2004-10-27T10:36:06","modified_gmt":"2004-10-27T17:36:06","slug":"get-out-some-other-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/10\/27\/get-out-some-other-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Out Some Other Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"002953\"><\/a>The LaRouchites stand behind a giant placade saying &#8220;Kerry \/ Edwards 2004&#8221; &#8212; obtainable at various Democratic and Kerry campaign headquarters, and in front of a sign that says &#8220;LaRouche Youth Movement&#8221; &#8212; and a picture of Lincoln, FDR, and&#8230; LaRouche.<\/p>\n<p>One LaRouchite has &#8220;Kerry \/ Edwards&#8221; stickers all over himself.<\/p>\n<p>It makes sense.  Cults co-opt memes; LaRouche co-opts &#8220;Anybody but Bush&#8221;.  It appeals to the kids.<\/p>\n<p>The Tom DeLay Campaign has claimed that his opponent, Richard Morrison, is using LaRouchites as surrogates, and is intimating that references to his corruption scandals are ipso-facto conspiracy &#8211; mongering.  The same reason he filed a frivulous lawsuit against Howard Dean, one he has no intention of following through with&#8230; tie Morrison in with &#8220;East Coast Elite Liberals&#8221;, and with &#8220;Nutball Conspiracy Theorists&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>(The Dean-founded organization&#8217;s ad shows a batch of newspaper headlines, which makes one wonder how to define the word &#8220;libel&#8221;.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LaRouchites stand behind a giant placade saying &#8220;Kerry \/ Edwards 2004&#8221; &#8212; obtainable at various Democratic and Kerry campaign headquarters, and in front of a sign that says &#8220;LaRouche Youth Movement&#8221; &#8212; and a picture of Lincoln, FDR, and&#8230; LaRouche. One LaRouchite has &#8220;Kerry \/ Edwards&#8221; stickers all over himself. It makes sense. Cults [&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-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","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=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}