{"id":2010,"date":"2004-06-07T13:58:45","date_gmt":"2004-06-07T20:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/06\/reagan-embodied-the-optimistic-spirit-of-california\/"},"modified":"2004-06-07T13:58:45","modified_gmt":"2004-06-07T20:58:45","slug":"reagan-embodied-the-optimistic-spirit-of-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/07\/reagan-embodied-the-optimistic-spirit-of-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Reagan embodied the optimistic spirit of California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tDan Walters, the dean of Sacramento political reporters, puts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/content\/politics\/columns\/walters\/story\/9558465p-10482130c.html\">Reagan in the California context:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Reagan is gone but, perhaps fittingly, California&#8217;s new governor is a spiritual clone, another immigrant who sought his fortune in Hollywood, who ousted an incumbent Democratic governor with a color in his name (Gray instead of Brown) on the promise to clean up the mess in Sacramento, whose political skills are sometimes underestimated, and who out-Reagans Reagan in exuding can-do optimism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Like Reagan, Arnie is a conservative who&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/covers\/1101040614\/rsullivan.html\">socially tolerant<\/a>, and that&#8217;s the direction the Republican Party needs to take now and in the future. Let&#8217;s not forget that under Reagan&#8217;s watch in Sacramento, abortion was legalized (in cases of rape, incest, or health of the mother) and no-fault divorce was passed. Tom DeLay, are you listening?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Walters, the dean of Sacramento political reporters, puts Reagan in the California context: Reagan is gone but, perhaps fittingly, California&#8217;s new governor is a spiritual clone, another immigrant who sought his fortune in Hollywood, who ousted an incumbent Democratic governor with a color in his name (Gray instead of Brown) on the promise to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/07\/reagan-embodied-the-optimistic-spirit-of-california\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reagan embodied the optimistic spirit of California&#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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2010","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-wq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010","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=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}