{"id":285,"date":"2002-03-04T14:48:10","date_gmt":"2002-03-04T21:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/03\/republican-death-wish\/"},"modified":"2002-03-04T14:48:10","modified_gmt":"2002-03-04T21:48:10","slug":"republican-death-wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/03\/04\/republican-death-wish\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Death Wish"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t— Columnists Matier and Ross have their finger on the pulse of California politics like nobody else (except Dan Walters<\/a> – he’s in a class by himself). They summarize the Davis strategy today (Big political fallout in S.F. regardless of election results<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\nCAT’S MEOW: No matter who wins tomorrow’s GOP gubernatorial primary, there’s one person who will be wearing a big smile: <\/p>\n

\nGray Davis. <\/p>\n

\n“The primary went just as we’d hoped,” was how one top Davis operative summed up the governor’s mood. <\/p>\n

\n“Either we come out of this facing a very badly damaged Richard Riordan or we face Bill Simon — a guy who is just too conservative for today’s California,” the operative said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Even Gray probably didn’t count on the help he got from Deukmejian, the biggest and loudest of the Riordan-bashers. But this is democracy at its worst – single-issue voters who’d rather make a point than win elections and govern. Whatever their point was, the only thing anyone will remember about this election is the stupidity of it.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— Columnists Matier and Ross have their finger on the pulse of California politics like nobody else (except Dan Walters – he’s in a class by himself). They summarize the Davis strategy today (Big political fallout in S.F. regardless of election results) CAT’S MEOW: No matter who wins tomorrow’s GOP gubernatorial primary, there’s one person … Continue reading “Republican Death Wish”<\/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-285","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-4B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","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=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}