{"id":287,"date":"2002-03-05T12:58:38","date_gmt":"2002-03-05T19:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/03\/stupidity-watch-2002\/"},"modified":"2002-03-05T12:58:38","modified_gmt":"2002-03-05T19:58:38","slug":"stupidity-watch-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/03\/05\/stupidity-watch-2002\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupidity watch 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#8212; The venal robot, Gray Davis, is governor of California today because Republicans nominated a hard-core, anti-abortion, drug-warrior conservative named Dan  Lungren to run against him. As the sitting Attorney General, Lungren had great name ID (the AG&#8217;s job is generally regarded as the stepping-stone to the Governor&#8217;s office;) he had plenty of money, and he had a unified party. But Lungren ran a lackluster campaign and got totally creamed. If he&#8217;d run a magnificent campaign, he would have lost by a smaller margin, but he would have lost nonetheless. Pete Wilson changed the dynamics of California politics forever with his Mexican-baiting Prop 187 &#8212; the Mexicans and other immigrants applied for citizenship and registered to vote.  Astute politicians know how to navigate these new political waters, as Riordan did in LA; the hard-core, religious right still dreams of Reagan and wishes for Happy Days. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,47160,00.html\">Ken Layne<\/a> on this issue, or, for perverse pleasure, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interglobal.org\/weblog\/archives\/000672.html#000672\">Rand Simberg<\/a> representing the knuckle-dragging Freeper point of view.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; The venal robot, Gray Davis, is governor of California today because Republicans nominated a hard-core, anti-abortion, drug-warrior conservative named Dan Lungren to run against him. As the sitting Attorney General, Lungren had great name ID (the AG&#8217;s job is generally regarded as the stepping-stone to the Governor&#8217;s office;) he had plenty of money, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/03\/05\/stupidity-watch-2002\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stupidity watch 2002&#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-287","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-4D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","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=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}