{"id":2605,"date":"2009-11-02T01:37:54","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T06:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/?p=2605"},"modified":"2009-11-02T01:37:54","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T06:37:54","slug":"its-the-platform-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/its-the-platform-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"it&#8217;s the platform stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In a not-so-surprising move, RINO drops out of NY congressional race. Why? Because even if the Democrat wins, the GOP would be embarrassed to place 3rd in a major election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I don&#8217;t get this statement in the article below, &#8220;Republican leaders struggle to rebuild, redefine&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">How about using the original party platform; no other party is?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Remember the Reagan tidal wave? Look at his video to your right, the &#8220;time for choosing&#8221; is as applicable today as it was back then. The Republican brand may be dead, but the conservative message is alive and well!<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2009\/10\/31\/republican-scozzafava-suspends-new-york-congressional-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\">Republican Scozzafava Drops Out of New York Congressional Race (Fox News)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<p>Republican state Assemblywoman Dierdre Scozzafava has suspended her campaign for upstate New York&#8217;s 23rd Congressional District seat, giving a possible boost to Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman against Democrat Bill Owens, Fox News has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes on the heels of a new poll that showed Scozzafava had fallen behind her two competitors in a close race.<\/p>\n<p>The special election is Tuesday, and political analysts believe upstate New York could be a preview of congressional races nationwide in 2010 and 2012 as Republican leaders struggle to rebuild, redefine and regain control of Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a not-so-surprising move, RINO drops out of NY congressional race. Why? Because even if the Democrat wins, the GOP would be embarrassed to place 3rd in a major election. I don&#8217;t get this statement in the article below, &#8220;Republican leaders struggle to rebuild, redefine&#8230;&#8221; How about using the original party platform; no other party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-G1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}