{"id":1052,"date":"2004-06-14T13:38:10","date_gmt":"2004-06-14T20:38:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-06-14T13:38:10","modified_gmt":"2004-06-14T20:38:10","slug":"do-the-republicans-have-a-presidential-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/14\/do-the-republicans-have-a-presidential-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Do the Republicans have a presidential candidate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In light of the information breaking in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/5197853\/site\/newsweek\/\" target=\"_blank\">White House&#8217;s <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,1101040621-650689,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">torture scandal, <\/a>along with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/Iraq\/Story\/0,2763,1238263,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">legal complications<\/a> of their <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/afp\/20040613\/wl_mideast_afp\/iraq_us_prisoners_040613132418\" target=\"_blank\">thousands of detainees in Iraq<\/a> as well as the <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=2026&#038;ncid=2026&#038;e=2&#038;u=\/latimests\/20040613\/ts_latimes\/insurgentsandislamnowrulersoffallouja\" target=\"_blank\">fact that the<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/5057770\/\" target=\"_blank\">Iraqi insurgents<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/common\/story_page\/0,5744,9832931%255E1702,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">are <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/ap\/20040613\/ap_on_re_mi_ea\/iraq_heart_of_darkness_1\" target=\"_blank\">clearly winning,<\/a>  I&#8217;m wondering who the Republicans are going to run as their presidential candidate.  Do they have time to find someone?<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, they could probably just <a href=\"http:\/\/fairuse.1accesshost.com\/news1\/smh2.htm\" target=\"_blank\">support Kerry,<\/a> anyway.  Maybe the Republicans could swing a pardon deal for the Bush Administration with  Kerry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of the information breaking in the White House&#8217;s torture scandal, along with the legal complications of their thousands of detainees in Iraq as well as the fact that the Iraqi insurgents are clearly winning, I&#8217;m wondering who the Republicans are going to run as their presidential candidate. Do they have time to find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}