{"id":18,"date":"2004-03-02T10:09:38","date_gmt":"2004-03-02T14:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2007-09-10T15:38:05","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T22:38:05","slug":"vote-for-dean-on-super-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Vote for DEAN on Super Tuesday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the BRAD BLOG is endorsing <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Howard Dean<\/span> for today&#8217;s <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">&#8220;Super Tuesday&#8221; Primary Election<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Why vote for a man who has unofficially left the race? Let&#8217;s take a look&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>At this time, it seems that <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">John Kerry<\/span>, the Media-Endorsed, Party-Approved candidate is likely to win California (where I live) and just about every other state hosting a primary today. With these wins, he will become the Candidate Apparent for the Dems in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>If you or anyone you know, is actually personally excited by or interested in John Kerry &#8211; beyond the fact that you believe he is currently the quickest route to disposing of <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">The Shrub<\/span> please COMMENT below and tell me why. I&#8217;d love to know. And, while we&#8217;re at it, I&#8217;d love to meet anyone &#8211; anyone &#8211; who actually <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">likes<\/span> John Kerry. That meeting ought to be a load of fun.<\/p>\n<p>But I digress&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So John Kerry will likely win everywhere today, and will become the nominee soon enough. And yet, some <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Former Deaniacs<\/span> are considering voting for <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">John Edwards<\/span> today. For some reason. I suppose, since it&#8217;s not a vote for John Kerry. <\/p>\n<p>But if you&#8217;re going to vote for &#8220;a loser&#8221; anyway, why not vote for someone who may end up with enough Delegates (Super and otherwise) to affect the way the Party is run at the Convention and\/or beyond?<\/p>\n<p>A vote for Dean <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">may<\/span> mean a change for the better in the Democratic Party. Whereas a vote for Edwards is nothing more than a vote for the guy who&#8217;s going to come in second place, and probably end up as Kerry&#8217;s Veep anyway. <\/p>\n<p>If you <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">ever<\/span> had any interest in what Dean had to say, if you ever felt he was given a raw deal by the Party and\/or the Media, if you are able to recognize how enormously he has already effected the entire Party Platform, now is your <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">only<\/span> chance to say or do anything about it. As little as it may be.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re really concerned about removing Bush from office, and if you&#8217;re not, you should have your priorities examined, you can always vote for Kerry on November 2nd. But for today, if you want to say <i>anything<\/i> with your vote, stand up and say something for your party by voting for Howard Dean.<\/p>\n<p>Here endeth the endorsement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the BRAD BLOG is endorsing Howard Dean for today&#8217;s &#8220;Super Tuesday&#8221; Primary Election. Why vote for a man who has unofficially left the race? Let&#8217;s take a look&#8230; At this time, it seems that John Kerry, the Media-Endorsed, Party-Approved candidate is likely to win California (where I live) and just about every other state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[299,8,83],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-election-2004","category-john-kerry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}