{"id":409,"date":"2003-07-15T11:41:37","date_gmt":"2003-07-15T16:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/409.html"},"modified":"2003-07-15T11:41:37","modified_gmt":"2003-07-15T16:41:37","slug":"springer-makes-his-senate-bid-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/springer-makes-his-senate-bid-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Springer makes his Senate bid official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we knew this was coming. Jerry Springer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/wire\/2003\/07\/14\/springer\/index.html\">officially filed papers yesterday<\/a> to run for the U.S. Senate in Ohio. This is not, as far as I&#8217;m concerned, good news.<\/p>\n<p>The former Cincinnati mayor will face State Sen. Eric Fingerhut in the Democratic primary. The winner of that race will lose, I mean, take on incumbent Sen. George Voinovich (R) next November.<\/p>\n<p>Why am I so opposed to a Springer campaign? Besides the obvious fact that he stands no chance at winning, I&#8217;m concerned about the impact Springer may have on tarnishing Democrats&#8217; reputation. <\/p>\n<p>If Springer wants to host some trashy freak show, that&#8217;s up to him. I can change the channel. But when he runs for statewide office as a Democrat, he opens the door to Republican charges that he somehow represents our party&#8217;s &#8220;values,&#8221; and that&#8217;s what I want to avoid.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Tucker Carlson, the conservative co-host of CNN&#8217;s Crossfire, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/TRANSCRIPTS\/0307\/10\/cf.00.html\">got the ball rolling<\/a> last night, saying, &#8220;I may send money to Jerry Springer because I think he&#8217;s the archetypal Democrat.&#8221; Carlson added that Springer should actually run for president.<\/p>\n<p>This is what I mean. Springer is not the &#8220;archetypal&#8221; Dem, he&#8217;s not even the archetypal talk show host. One can only hope he withdraws from the race before he does too much damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we knew this was coming. Jerry Springer officially filed papers yesterday to run for the U.S. Senate in Ohio. This is not, as far as I&#8217;m concerned, good news. The former Cincinnati mayor will face State Sen. Eric Fingerhut in the Democratic primary. The winner of that race will lose, I mean, take on [&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-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","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=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}