{"id":868,"date":"2008-11-05T02:16:21","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T02:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=868"},"modified":"2008-11-05T02:16:21","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T02:16:21","slug":"remembering-the-past-bloggy-style-when-political-partys-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=868","title":{"rendered":"Remembering The Past&#8230; Bloggy Style. When Political Partys Collapse."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Remembering%20The%20Past...%20Bloggy%20Style.%20When%20Political%20Partys%20Collapse.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Many years ago, in a different time and on a different blog, I wrote a post or two about the impending doom of the Democratic Party. It was 2004, and the Dems were tripping over themselves to try to be both anti-war, and pro military at the same time. It&#8217;s possible to do, but it ain&#8217;t easy. They had a Presidential candidate in John Kerry who was about as charismatic as a dead bug, and, in case you didn&#8217;t know, he was in Vietnam&#8230; Uhm scratch that. I was looking through my archives, for the post I was referring to, and as it turns out, I wasn&#8217;t even blogging when Kerry was running for President. I didn&#8217;t start until January 2005. But If I would have been blogging then, I would have been gleefully anticipating the collapse of the Democratic party. They had picked yet another lame candidate for the Presidency. They were doing their bet to ensure defeat in Iraq, which, especially the latter, caused rgeat strife within the party. It looked as if the ghosts of Vietnam (which Kerry served in BTW) were coming back to tear the party in two.<\/p>\n<p>Now here we are on election day 2008, and the Dems are poised to gain even more of a majority in the House, take over and maybe even get a veto proof majority in the Senate, and to top things off, get the biggest prize of them all, the Presidency.\u00a0 And it is the Republican party that appears to be in tatters. Am I gleeful? Not really. Though I am a registered libertarian, I identify more with conservatives more than liberals.<\/p>\n<p>The reason why I am not gleeful is that the Republican party is shedding the Reagan inspired concept of &#8220;the Big Tent&#8221;. The Rush Republicans have declared that the moderates and RINO&#8217;s leave the party &#8211; they want it to shape in their own image. Fine. When the night is over, and Obama has won by a landslide, we&#8217;ll see how well you do without us in the next elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Remembering%20The%20Past...%20Bloggy%20Style.%20When%20Political%20Partys%20Collapse.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Many years ago, in a different time and on a different blog, I wrote a post or two about the impending doom of the Democratic Party. It was 2004, and the Dems were tripping over themselves to try to be both anti-war, and pro military at the same time. It&#8217;s possible to do, but it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}