{"id":195952,"date":"2008-06-03T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/03\/bush-dog-going-after-lautenberg-on-age-in-nj-senate-primary\/"},"modified":"2008-06-03T17:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T22:02:00","slug":"bush-dog-going-after-lautenberg-on-age-in-nj-senate-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/03\/bush-dog-going-after-lautenberg-on-age-in-nj-senate-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Dog Going After Lautenberg on Age in NJ Senate Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope that Lautenberg wins, because Robert Andrews is a real faux Democrat, but it was forseeable that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/06\/02\/AR2008060202985.html\">Lautenberg&#8217;s age would be an issue on this<\/a>.  He&#8217;s 84 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Why the cleared the field for him, leaving only a right wing puke who aggressively lobbied for votes for every Bush war resolution, voted on behalf of big pharma, against unions in trade deals, for &#8220;defense contractor sweetheart deals for retiring military officers&#8221;, and against rolling back the Bush tax cuts. (<a href=\"http:\/\/downwithtyranny.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/conservative-pro-war-new-jersey.html\">see here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Lautenberg is a bit too old for the Senate, and Andrews is way too evil for the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Lovely choice for NJ Dems today.<\/p>\n<p>Rasmussen has Lautenberg with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/election_20082\/2008_senate_elections\/new_jersey\/election_2008_new_jersey_democratic_senate_primary\">a significant lead, but still under 50%<\/a>, which is worrying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope that Lautenberg wins, because Robert Andrews is a real faux Democrat, but it was forseeable that Lautenberg&#8217;s age would be an issue on this. He&#8217;s 84 years old. Why the cleared the field for him, leaving only a right wing puke who aggressively lobbied for votes for every Bush war resolution, voted on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195952"}],"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=195952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}