{"id":1633,"date":"2003-07-30T02:46:32","date_gmt":"2003-07-30T09:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/07\/hot-potato\/"},"modified":"2003-07-30T02:46:32","modified_gmt":"2003-07-30T09:46:32","slug":"hot-potato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/30\/hot-potato\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot potato"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tCalblogger is as irritated as I am with Arnie and Dick’s little game of gubernatorial indecision:<\/a><\/p>\n

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We’re not looking at Riordan getting ready or Arnold trying to decide. We’re watching two men playing hot potato with the governorship with the belief that it belongs to one of them and only one of them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Look, boys, the governor’s office doesn’t have either of your names on it yet, and if you keep this up it never will. For all the muscles, Arnie is a obviously a momma’s boy who can’t make a move without his wife’s permission, and Dick is a dilettante who’d rather sip martinis and tell stories than get down to business. While this tea-party is taking place, serious candidates like Tom McClintock are in the race and running hard, and the Dems have started a “Draft Dianne” movement that’s gathering steam<\/a> toward a more plausible replacement.<\/p>\n

If the race comes down to Feinstein and Riordan, the karma factor will be intense because both have been slimed by Davis so intensely, Feinstein with the Leona Helmsley ads and Riordan with the $9M in ads during the Republican primary.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Calblogger is as irritated as I am with Arnie and Dick’s little game of gubernatorial indecision: We’re not looking at Riordan getting ready or Arnold trying to decide. We’re watching two men playing hot potato with the governorship with the belief that it belongs to one of them and only one of them. Look, boys, … Continue reading “Hot potato”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1633","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-ql","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633","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=1633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}