{"id":1598,"date":"2003-07-08T03:52:13","date_gmt":"2003-07-08T10:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/07\/the-trouble-with-democrats\/"},"modified":"2003-07-08T03:52:13","modified_gmt":"2003-07-08T10:52:13","slug":"the-trouble-with-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/08\/the-trouble-with-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"The trouble with Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tDemocrats have a problem with snobbery, according to <a title=\"U.S. News: Michael Barone on election 2004: Building confidence(7\/14\/03)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/usnews\/issue\/030714\/opinion\/14pol.htm\">Michael Barone:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Core Democrats have an emotional investment in the idea that George W. Bush is an idiot [they believe they&#8217;re] smarter than other people. At the heart of their hatred of Bush is snobbery&#8230; Dean and Kerry [exude snobbery]. This could give whichever of them survives New Hampshire an edge with core Democrats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If the snob factor leads Democrats to nominate Kerry or Dean, Bush wins in a landslide, because most Americans don&#8217;t share this attitude. Barone is one of the most serious students of American politics, and his views are worth considering.<\/p>\n<p>Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instapundit.com\/\">Instapundit<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats have a problem with snobbery, according to Michael Barone: Core Democrats have an emotional investment in the idea that George W. Bush is an idiot [they believe they&#8217;re] smarter than other people. At the heart of their hatred of Bush is snobbery&#8230; Dean and Kerry [exude snobbery]. This could give whichever of them survives &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/08\/the-trouble-with-democrats\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The trouble with Democrats&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-pM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}