{"id":2103,"date":"2004-07-12T11:48:16","date_gmt":"2004-07-12T16:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2103.html"},"modified":"2004-07-12T11:48:16","modified_gmt":"2004-07-12T16:48:16","slug":"well-see-your-zell-miller-and-raise-you-a-ronald-reagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/well-see-your-zell-miller-and-raise-you-a-ronald-reagan\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ll see your Zell Miller and raise you a Ronald Reagan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/history\/presidents\/rr40.html\">that<\/a> Ronald Reagan; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/feature\/2003\/04\/14\/ron_reagan\/\">this<\/a> Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n<p>About three weeks ago, after Ron Jr. was criticizing Cheney and insisting Bush lied his way into the war in Iraq, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/002000.html\">I suggested<\/a> the Dems arrange to have him speak at the DNC. Fortunately, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/politics\/president\/bush\/articles\/2004\/07\/12\/ron_reagan_to_address_democrats_at_convention\/\">that&#8217;s exactly what they&#8217;ve done<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a move sure to embarrass Republicans, Ron Reagan will address the Democratic National Convention this month.<\/p>\n<p>Reagan, son of former President Ronald Reagan and an outspoken critic of the Bush administration, will be on the podium the second night of the four-day event in Boston, July 27, in support of stem-cell research, he said yesterday in an interview in Los Angeles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reagan also insisted he would not attend the RNC&#8217;s tribute to his father this September and added, &#8220;The Republican Party now is not the Republican Party of my father.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s difficult to make any kind of news at these political conventions, but speeches like this one should help generate some attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not that Ronald Reagan; this Ronald Reagan. About three weeks ago, after Ron Jr. was criticizing Cheney and insisting Bush lied his way into the war in Iraq, I suggested the Dems arrange to have him speak at the DNC. Fortunately, that&#8217;s exactly what they&#8217;ve done. In a move sure to embarrass Republicans, Ron [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}