{"id":2796,"date":"2004-08-02T13:15:49","date_gmt":"2004-08-02T20:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/08\/kerry-de-frocked\/"},"modified":"2004-08-02T13:15:49","modified_gmt":"2004-08-02T20:15:49","slug":"kerry-de-frocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/02\/kerry-de-frocked\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry de-frocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tDavid Brooks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/07\/31\/opinion\/31brooks.html?n=Top%2fOpinion%2fEditorials%20and%20Op%2dEd%2fOp%2dEd%2fColumnists%2fDavid%20Brooks\">nails Sen. Kerry:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhat the Democratic Party is going through is not yet a genuine muscular centrist revival. As a friend joked, from the voters of Iowa to the delegates in Boston, there&#8217;s been a vast left-wing conspiracy to present a candidate who looks like a muscular moderate, but they picked someone who is not in his heart of hearts a muscular moderate, or anything else. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Brooks nails Sen. Kerry: What the Democratic Party is going through is not yet a genuine muscular centrist revival. As a friend joked, from the voters of Iowa to the delegates in Boston, there&#8217;s been a vast left-wing conspiracy to present a candidate who looks like a muscular moderate, but they picked someone who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/02\/kerry-de-frocked\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kerry de-frocked&#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-2796","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-J6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796","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=2796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}