{"id":949,"date":"2015-11-11T11:55:11","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T17:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/?p=949"},"modified":"2015-11-11T11:55:11","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T17:55:11","slug":"2016-election-bob-dole-endorses-jeb-bush-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/?p=949","title":{"rendered":"2016 election: Bob Dole endorses Jeb Bush &#8211; POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/11\/bob-dole-jeb-bush-215759\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/urlhttp%3A%2F%2Fstatic.politico.com%2F1f%2F19%2F07c749194e40975a11403f2ba109%2F151111-bob-dole-gty-1160.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>&#8220;I will do all I can to be helpful to Jeb\u2019s campaign,\u201d Dole promised.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/11\/bob-dole-jeb-bush-215759\">2016 election: Bob Dole endorses Jeb Bush &#8211; POLITICO<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well now. \u00a0If a campaign could reach any greater depth of desperation, I really do not know what it could be. \u00a0Every other campaign &#8211; except perhaps Kasich &#8211; would be paying Dole to keep his mouth shut.<\/p>\n<p>Does the Party leadership still think they can force a Bush candidacy upon us? \u00a0Are they in denial? \u00a0Perhaps they are that afraid of Donald Trump. \u00a0If it&#8217;s this latter, the one thing you can be sure of is Trump will not get out until\u00a0<em>after<\/em> Bush is gone. \u00a0It is reaching an embarrassing state.<\/p>\n<p>The sooner that the leadership understands that the Party will not accept another Diet Dem candidate, the better they have\u00a0<em>any<\/em> chance of keeping their jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I will do all I can to be helpful to Jeb\u2019s campaign,\u201d Dole promised. Source: 2016 election: Bob Dole endorses Jeb Bush &#8211; POLITICO Well now. \u00a0If a campaign could reach any greater depth of desperation, I really do not &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/?p=949\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[22,153,51,236,56,57,237,68,217,82,100,203,115,116,202],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-news","category-politics","tag-tcot","tag-cruz","tag-current-events","tag-debate","tag-election","tag-election-2016","tag-establishment","tag-government","tag-jeb","tag-jeb-bush","tag-politics-2","tag-republicans","tag-tea-party","tag-ted-cruz","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yCHs-fj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":951,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions\/951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}