{"id":875,"date":"2002-08-12T10:52:10","date_gmt":"2002-08-12T17:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/08\/resurrecting-simon\/"},"modified":"2002-08-12T10:52:10","modified_gmt":"2002-08-12T17:52:10","slug":"resurrecting-simon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/08\/12\/resurrecting-simon\/","title":{"rendered":"Resurrecting Simon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tAce Republican strategist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickruffini.com\/rants\/00000481.php\">Patrick Ruffini<\/a> has advice for the Simon campaign:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If Simon defines a vulnerable Gray Davis well and relentlessly enough, political reality will eventually catch up with him. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Could be, but Simon better get with it &#8212; Gray&#8217;s latest round of ads attacking Simon for business fraud <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bayarea.com\/mld\/cctimes\/news\/state\/3846562.htm\">are pretty deadly<\/a>. Simon&#8217;s basic problem is a lack of aptitude for politics. He&#8217;s not even doing the basic things he has to do to win, let alone the advanced, Machiavellian things. The man is just lame.<\/p>\n<p>Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bendomenech.com\/\">Ben Domenech,<\/a> the best White House intern since Lewinsky.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ace Republican strategist Patrick Ruffini has advice for the Simon campaign: If Simon defines a vulnerable Gray Davis well and relentlessly enough, political reality will eventually catch up with him. Could be, but Simon better get with it &#8212; Gray&#8217;s latest round of ads attacking Simon for business fraud are pretty deadly. Simon&#8217;s basic problem &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/08\/12\/resurrecting-simon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Resurrecting Simon&#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-875","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-e7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","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=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}