{"id":182746,"date":"2015-06-16T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/06\/16\/i-just-had-an-epiphany\/"},"modified":"2015-06-16T17:35:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T22:35:00","slug":"i-just-had-an-epiphany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/06\/16\/i-just-had-an-epiphany\/","title":{"rendered":"I Just Had an Epiphany"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was talking with my wife, and she asked how many people were running for the Republican Presidential nomination, so we went to the Wiki, and we came up with a count, 16, possibly as many as 19. (List with status key after the break)<\/p>\n

She then asked how many Democrats are running, and I said 3, Clinton, Sanders, and O’Malley. <\/p>\n

She jokingly suggested that I change parties to Republican, because I had more charges, and I replied, “Nope.  I want to vote against<\/span><\/b> Hillary Clinton. \u2026\u2026\u2026 No, that’s not actually true. I want to vote for<\/span><\/b> Bernie Sanders.”<\/p>\n

And then it hit me:  I actually want to vote for<\/span><\/b> Bernie Sanders.<\/p>\n

This is the first time that I’ve actually wanted to vote for<\/span><\/b> a Presidential candidate in at least a dozen years.<\/p>\n

It’s a strange feeling. \u2026\u2026\u2026 It’s a good<\/span><\/b> feeling, but it’s a strange<\/span><\/b> feeling.<\/p>\n

<\/a>List of ‘Phant candidates.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Jeb Bush*<\/sup><\/li>\n
  2. Ben Carson*<\/sup><\/li>\n
  3. Ted Cruz*<\/sup><\/li>\n
  4. Carly Fiorina*<\/sup><\/li>\n
  5. Lindsey Graham*<\/sup><\/li>\n
  6. Mike Huckabee*<\/sup><\/li>\n
  7. George Pataki*<\/sup><\/li>\n
  8. Rand Paul*<\/sup><\/li>\n
  9. Rick Perry*<\/sup><\/li>\n
  10. Marco Rubio*<\/sup><\/li>\n
  11. Rick Santorum*<\/sup><\/li>\n
  12. Donald Trump*<\/sup><\/li>\n
  13. Bobby Jindal\u2020<\/sup><\/li>\n
  14. Scott Walker\u2020<\/sup><\/li>\n
  15. Chris Christie\u2021<\/sup><\/li>\n
  16. John Kasich\u2021<\/sup><\/li>\n
  17. Bob “Badhair” Ehrlich\u20ac<\/sup><\/li>\n
  18. Jim Gilmore\u20ac<\/sup><\/li>\n
  19. Peter King\u20ac<\/sup><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    * = Officially running
    \u2020 = To make it official shortly.
    \u2021 = Formed a PAC or a 529, so basically running, if not for President, then for Veep.
    \u20ac = Made noises, but nothing official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I was talking with my wife, and she asked how many people were running for the Republican Presidential nomination, so we went to the Wiki, and we came up with a count, 16, possibly as many as 19. (List with status key after the break) She then asked how many Democrats are running, and I …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[961,963,978,977,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deep-thoughts","category-donald-trump","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}