{"id":1404,"date":"2013-11-07T01:52:07","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T06:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2013-11-08T17:38:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T22:38:38","slug":"carpetbagger-defeats-teabagger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=1404","title":{"rendered":"Carpetbagger Defeats Teabagger!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/carpetbagdefeatsteabag\/carpetbagdefeatsteabag.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/carpetbagdefeatsteabag\/carpetbagdefeatsteabag600w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"635\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A political analyst interviewed on<em> The Daily Show<\/em> late last week referred to the two major party <a href=\"http:\/\/firstread.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/09\/26\/20705131-off-to-the-races-cucinelli-vs-mcauliffe\" target=\"_blank\">candidates for Governor of Virginia<\/a> as the worst candidates he&#8217;d ever seen, remarking that Virginia voters were being asked to choose between &#8220;cancer and a heart attack&#8221;. That summed it up perfectly, if you ask me.<\/p>\n<p>So it was that this past Tuesday, Virginians chose former Donkeycratic Party honcho and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/22\/magazine\/terry-mcauliffe-and-the-other-green-party.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Clinton money man<\/a> Terry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/focus\/f-news\/1286610\/posts\" target=\"_blank\">McAwful<\/a> &#8212; uhh, MacAuliffe &#8212; over Tea Party loon Ken <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teapartynation.com\/forum\/topics\/the-canary-in-the-mine\" target=\"_blank\">Cuccinelli<\/a> to occupy the Governor&#8217;s mansion&#8230; not that it&#8217;d make any difference in the long run.<\/p>\n<p>God, I hate democracy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11&#215;11 inch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/carpetbagdefeatsteabag\/carpetbagdefeatsteabag.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 468kb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A political analyst interviewed on The Daily Show late last week referred to the two major party candidates for Governor of Virginia as the worst candidates he&#8217;d ever seen, remarking that Virginia voters were being asked to choose between &#8220;cancer and a heart attack&#8221;. That summed it up perfectly, if you ask me. So it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,132],"tags":[536,53,538,539,178,537],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-party-animals","tag-cucinelli","tag-democrats","tag-gubernatorial","tag-mcauliffe","tag-tea-party","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1408,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions\/1408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}