{"id":115,"date":"2009-09-03T08:49:51","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T12:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=115"},"modified":"2009-09-03T08:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T12:50:00","slug":"we-need-a-vp-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"We Need a VP Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.wonkette.com\/assets\/resources\/2008\/03\/sarah_palin_ap.jpg\" alt=\"Sarah Palin\" align=\"left\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/online\/daily\/2009\/09\/levi-johnston.html\" target=\"_blank\">In the October Vanity Fair,<\/a> Levi Johnston, Bristol Palin&#8217;s baby daddy, talks about what it was like living in the Palin household. I read over the excerpts and couldn&#8217;t help but think, &#8220;Mercy, but she sounds like L. Ron Hubbard&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is what is wrong with American politics today. A major party was so obsessed with appearances, it didn&#8217;t bother to vet a VP candidate properly. In 1796 and 1800, when we realized there was a problem in the way with electing the president, we fixed it. The problem then? The president got a VP he didn&#8217;t want and that really messed up his administration. <\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m all for weakening the executive branch somewhat, I don&#8217;t want it so weak that it gets someone with a Tom Cruise grin a heartbeat away from the presidency. We need to have primaries for VPs, too. If it&#8217;s a matter of just taking someone who&#8217;s already gone through the primary process, that&#8217;s easy enough to do. If we want someone from outside that arena, we need to insist on someone with more experience and not just some Tina Fey glasses with a perky can-do voice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the October Vanity Fair, Levi Johnston, Bristol Palin&#8217;s baby daddy, talks about what it was like living in the Palin household. I read over the excerpts and couldn&#8217;t help but think, &#8220;Mercy, but she sounds like L. Ron Hubbard&#8230;&#8221; This is what is wrong with American politics today. A major party was so obsessed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}