{"id":298,"date":"2003-03-04T11:48:26","date_gmt":"2003-03-04T16:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/298.html"},"modified":"2003-03-04T11:48:26","modified_gmt":"2003-03-04T16:48:26","slug":"nader-supporters-answer-karl-roves-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/nader-supporters-answer-karl-roves-prayers\/","title":{"rendered":"Nader supporters answer Karl Rove&#8217;s prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AP political reporter<a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/ap\/20030303\/ap_to_po\/campaign_2004_1\"> Will Lester uncovered today<\/a> what is easily the worst election news Carpetbagger can contemplate: The Nader 2004 Draft Committee has opened offices in New York and San Francisco with plans under way for offices in Washington, New Hampshire and Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>Beating Bush will be a daunting challenge in 2004, despite his fiscal mismanagement, bungled foreign policy, and series of broken promises. He will have $200 million to use to scam the populace into believing that he&#8217;s an honest president who has cut taxes, restored &#8220;honor and dignity&#8221; to the White House, and strengthened America&#8217;s hand around the world. (Don&#8217;t think it can be done? Two years ago, Bush convinced 48% of the voting population that he was a &#8220;compassionate conservative&#8221; and a &#8220;reformer with results&#8221; who would &#8220;change the tone&#8221; in Washington.)<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic candidate, whoever he or she is, will have to catch every break to pull this one out. With Nader, who still apparently believes there&#8217;s no significant difference between Democrats and Republicans, splitting the vote among those who would replace Bush, a difficult task becomes nearly impossible. Bush would almost certainly cruise to a second term.<\/p>\n<p>The article did contain a glimmer of hope: Nader hasn&#8217;t formally decided whether to run in &#8217;04 and is not involved with the draft committee&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP political reporter Will Lester uncovered today what is easily the worst election news Carpetbagger can contemplate: The Nader 2004 Draft Committee has opened offices in New York and San Francisco with plans under way for offices in Washington, New Hampshire and Iowa. Beating Bush will be a daunting challenge in 2004, despite his fiscal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","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=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}