{"id":114,"date":"2002-12-02T22:32:06","date_gmt":"2002-12-02T22:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/?p=114"},"modified":"2002-12-02T22:32:06","modified_gmt":"2002-12-02T22:32:06","slug":"thanks-for-the-warning-cokie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2002\/12\/02\/thanks-for-the-warning-cokie\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks For The Warning, Cokie!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On today&#8217;s Morning Edition, NPR called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/blog\/archives\/000124.html\">Cokie Roberts<\/a> to get her take on John Kerry&#8217;s announcement that he is, um, like, really, really serious about running for President (&#8220;Hello, anyone listening?&#8221;). Her take?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The last liberal Democrat from Massachusetts who ran for President was Michael Dukakis, and we know what happened to him.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She also dredged up a comparison from even further back in the political past:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The last Democrat who did that was George McGovern.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow. Scary stuff. Thanks for the tips, Cokie!<br \/>\n(Not that Kerry has any chance whatsoever of being elected President.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today&#8217;s Morning Edition, NPR called Cokie Roberts to get her take on John Kerry&#8217;s announcement that he is, um, like, really, really serious about running for President (&#8220;Hello, anyone listening?&#8221;). Her take? &#8220;The last liberal Democrat from Massachusetts who ran for President was Michael Dukakis, and we know what happened to him.&#8221; She also&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2002\/12\/02\/thanks-for-the-warning-cokie\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thanks For The Warning, Cokie!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-journalism-blogs","category-politics-policy-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5heLP-1Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}