{"id":1913,"date":"2006-10-29T16:41:30","date_gmt":"2006-10-29T21:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2006-10-29T16:41:30","modified_gmt":"2006-10-29T21:41:30","slug":"red-state-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2006\/10\/red-state-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Red state blues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every day I find another reason to be happy that we’ve moved (back) to Virginia, and now that it’s fall I find bonus reasons. The colors, the apple cider, the pumpkins…. yes, we had fall colors, cider, and pumpkins in Maryland, but not like this<\/em>. And twice a day, as I go over the overpass, I can take a quick look out the side window and see a magnificent view that extends all the way to the mountains.
\nThere’s one unlovely thing about Virginia this fall, however, and that’s the Senate race. Why can’t Allen and Webb just go out and fight a duel or something instead of this insane mudslinging? And why are they treating me like I’m stupid? Guys (for gentlemen you are not), would you quit with the hicker-than-thou pose?
\nWebb’s particularly annoying, since he carefully wipes the rouge off his neck as soon as the Rappahannock’s in the rear-view mirror. Up here in the D.C. burbs, he attacks Allen as being some kind of throwback, but in the southern counties he paints himself as a Real “Born Fightin'” Virginian (never mind that Allen’s an ex-governor — he was born in California<\/em>!) And of course the major newspapers don’t call him on it. It’s disgusting.
\nI’ll never vote for Webb; his party’s made it clear they don’t want my vote, seeing as I’m one of those pro-life theocrat faithbot extremist types. But Allen’s campaign isn’t doing much for me either.
\nThe only compelling reason I can think of to vote for Allen is the issue of judges. Is that a good enough reason to pull the lever for the guy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every day I find another reason to be happy that we’ve moved (back) to Virginia, and now that it’s fall I find bonus reasons. The colors, the apple cider, the pumpkins…. yes, we had fall colors, cider, and pumpkins in Maryland, but not like this. And twice a day, as I go over the overpass,… Continue reading Red state blues<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}