{"id":9409,"date":"2006-12-21T13:00:28","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T18:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/9409.html"},"modified":"2006-12-21T13:00:28","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T18:00:28","slug":"dont-throw-me-in-that-briar-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/dont-throw-me-in-that-briar-patch\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t throw me in that briar patch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe you like Hillary Clinton; maybe you don&#8217;t. Maybe you&#8217;re excited about Barack Obama; maybe you&#8217;re not. But before you dismiss either of them as presidential candidates, consider one <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200612210001\">very big upside<\/a> to voting for them.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the December 18 edition of Fox News&#8217; Hannity &#038; Colmes, guest host Karen Hanretty asked Fox News political analyst Dick Morris if he was &#8220;proposing a ticket of [Sen.] Hillary Clinton [D-NY], [Sen.] Barack Obama [D-IL],&#8221; for the Democratic presidential nomination, to which Morris replied: &#8220;I&#8217;m not proposing it. I&#8217;m leaving the country if this happens.&#8221; Morris added, &#8220;I do not want Hillary Clinton controlling the FBI and the IRS and the CIA and the DEA.&#8221; When co-host Alan Colmes later asked Morris if he was &#8220;really going to leave&#8221; should Clinton win, Morris said, &#8220;I hope not to have to make that choice.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can see the bumper-stickers now, &#8220;Vote Clinton &#8217;08 &#8212; To rid us of Dick Morris&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe you like Hillary Clinton; maybe you don&#8217;t. Maybe you&#8217;re excited about Barack Obama; maybe you&#8217;re not. But before you dismiss either of them as presidential candidates, consider one very big upside to voting for them. On the December 18 edition of Fox News&#8217; Hannity &#038; Colmes, guest host Karen Hanretty asked Fox News political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9409","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}