{"id":572,"date":"2004-10-19T22:21:44","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T22:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:51","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:51","slug":"beldars_counter_to_fling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=572","title":{"rendered":"Beldar’s Counter To Fling"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the flip side, here’s Beldar’s appeal<\/a> to folks just like me:<\/p>\n

“What fundamental dilemma?” you ask. Well, look at your fellow Kerry voters. Look at the Democratic Party; look at its congressmen and senators; look at its policy wonks and think-tankers and fundraisers and likely appointees to key posts, on both domestic and foreign\/military policy positions. We’ve established already that you’re not a barking moonbat yourself. Surely, though, you can see them around you in the Kerry queue, can’t you?<\/p>\n

Then in your best-case scenario, my friend, you’ll be electing another man who’ll be immediately thrust into the position Lyndon Johnson was in as of January 1968 … a man who from the first day of his presidency will be faced by incredible pressures from within his own party, from many of his own advisers and fundraisers and legislators, to do exactly the opposite of what you are counting on Kerry to do.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the flip side, here’s Beldar’s appeal to folks just like me: “What fundamental dilemma?” you ask. Well, look at your fellow Kerry voters. Look at the Democratic Party; look at its congressmen and senators; look at its policy wonks and think-tankers and fundraisers and likely appointees to key posts, on both domestic and foreign\/military […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}