{"id":2637,"date":"2002-07-30T09:27:27","date_gmt":"2002-07-30T09:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=182"},"modified":"2002-07-30T09:27:27","modified_gmt":"2002-07-30T09:27:27","slug":"democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2637","title":{"rendered":"DEMOCRATS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"HTTP:\/\/www.polizeroes.com\" target=\"browser\">Bob Morris<\/a> weighs in on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A14127-2002Jul28.html\" target=\"browser\">Joe Lieberman&#8217;s<\/a> attempt to keep Al Gore on the New Democrat ranch:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Well Joe, you silly elitist twit, it IS a class conflict, and speaking out loudly against corporate fraud and corruption could be the best possible way for Democrats to re-take the White House.  And by the way Joe, remind us why you are a Democrat since you are more conservative than most Republicans?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bob, the sad fact is that you&#8217;re absolutely right &#8211; this is what the Dems <u>should<\/u> be doing. But also I think in taking this tack, the Democrats expose themselves incredibly (as noted in my <a href=\"http:\/\/armedliberal.blogspot.com\/2002_07_21_armedliberal_archive.html#79442387\" target=\"browser\">post<\/a> below). I&#8217;m hard-pressed to imagine that we could find a Democrat who isn&#8217;t vulnerable enough (remember that we don&#8217;t need parity in corruption&#8230;a mere stain will do)to this issue to make it suicidal gesture, and as a consequence I think we&#8217;ll get a lot of posturing over arcane accounting and administrative trivia which will allow the Dems to take Bush on (&#8220;what did he know and when did he know it?&#8221; type stuff) without threatening their own access to the private jets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Morris weighs in on Joe Lieberman&#8217;s attempt to keep Al Gore on the New Democrat ranch: Well Joe, you silly elitist twit, it IS a class conflict, and speaking out loudly against corporate fraud and corruption could be the best possible way for Democrats to re-take the White House. And by the way Joe, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}