{"id":9404,"date":"2011-12-28T10:34:27","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T17:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=9404"},"modified":"2011-12-28T10:34:27","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T17:34:27","slug":"throwback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2011\/12\/28\/throwback\/","title":{"rendered":"throwback"},"content":{"rendered":"

Random.
\n“Wait. \u00c2\u00a0Let me see that shirt.”
\nDukakis \/ Bentsen ’88.
\n“Dukakis? \u00c2\u00a0Really?”
\n“Not a fan?”
\n“I can’t say I had an opinion at that age.”
\n“Yeah. \u00c2\u00a0Well, I’m from Massachusetts, so there’s sentimental thing there. \u00c2\u00a0I met Dukakis when I was 6. ”<\/p>\n

Just one in a series of the Democratic Party’s headaches.<\/p>\n

A random wikipedia drop.<\/p>\n

The offspring of both Bentsen and Quayle later served in the United States House, although it was eight years between nephew\u00c2\u00a0Ken Bentsen’s departure (Texas, 1995-2003) and son\u00c2\u00a0Ben Quayle’s inauguration (Arizona, 2011).<\/em><\/a>
\nThe problem with this SNL reference is it didn’t mention the funniest SNL item with that quip: \u00c2\u00a0On the eve of the election defeat, Bentsen wandering around a party repeatedly using that story to every single person “And then I said ‘–“.<\/p>\n

I once saw an Oliver North for President shirt. \u00c2\u00a0Considered picking it up. \u00c2\u00a0Irony wear, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Random. “Wait. \u00c2\u00a0Let me see that shirt.” Dukakis \/ Bentsen ’88. “Dukakis? \u00c2\u00a0Really?” “Not a fan?” “I can’t say I had an opinion at that age.” “Yeah. \u00c2\u00a0Well, I’m from Massachusetts, so there’s sentimental thing there. \u00c2\u00a0I met Dukakis when I was 6. ” Just one in a series of the Democratic Party’s headaches. A […]<\/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-9404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9404","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=9404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9405,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9404\/revisions\/9405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}