{"id":240,"date":"2003-11-06T22:47:51","date_gmt":"2003-11-07T05:47:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-11-06T22:47:51","modified_gmt":"2003-11-07T05:47:51","slug":"half-baked-but-surprisingly-tasty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/06\/half-baked-but-surprisingly-tasty\/","title":{"rendered":"Half-Baked, but Surprisingly Tasty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an idea I tossed off to a reader earlier today: a Dennis Kucinich\/Ron Paul ticket for 2004. <\/p>\n<p>Now that you&#8217;ve picked yourself off the floor and quit guffawing, think about it. The plan is inspired by the Reagan\/Ford &#8220;co-presidency&#8221; floated at the 1980 Republican convention, but it&#8217;s much weirder. The campaign would focus on common ground&#8211;opposition to war, occupation, the neocon agenda&#8211; with both candidates pledging to pursue separate programs where they diverge once elected. Let Congress sort it out.<\/p>\n<p>This would push foreign policy to the foreground in &#8217;04. And if Kucinich\/Paul could get a slate of like-minded candidates in congressional races, even better. The coalition could pick up disaffected voters all over the spectrum, with definite potential for the best 3rd party showing since &#8217;92. <\/p>\n<p>Encouraging note: upon Googling the idea to see if I came up with it, another mention <a href=http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/Kucinich-for-President\/message\/235>appeared<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an idea I tossed off to a reader earlier today: a Dennis Kucinich\/Ron Paul ticket for 2004. Now that you&#8217;ve picked yourself off the floor and quit guffawing, think about it. The plan is inspired by the Reagan\/Ford &#8220;co-presidency&#8221; floated at the 1980 Republican convention, but it&#8217;s much weirder. The campaign would focus on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"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-240","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\/240","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}