{"id":2126,"date":"2006-10-26T01:15:44","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T05:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/10\/frist_cuts_and\/"},"modified":"2006-10-26T01:15:44","modified_gmt":"2006-10-26T05:15:44","slug":"frist_cuts_and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/10\/frist_cuts_and\/","title":{"rendered":"Frist Cuts and Runs from the GOP’s Supposed Electoral Trump Card"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow, wasn’t it just a few weeks ago that all the wise D.C. pundits were saying that President Bush need only mention terrorism and patriotic voters would flock to the GOP? Now this<\/a>: <\/p>\n

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist says if Republican candidates want to succeed on Election Day, they should turn their focus away from the Iraq war.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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"The challenge is to get Americans to focus on pocketbook issues, and not on the Iraq and terror issue," Frist said in an interview with the Concord Monitor on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I guess Iraq isn’t going so well.  But things aren’t all bad.  The chaos apparently hasn’t damped Frist’s sense of humor: <\/p>\n

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Frist suggested that Republicans remind voters of subjects like tax cuts and lower gas prices, the result, he said, of the energy bill passed by Congress last year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What?  GOP candidates should be running on the energy bill?  Three months ago you couldn’t find a Republican talking up the energy bill if you had a search warrant.  I know many Americans have a short memories, but they aren’t that<\/em> short.  The specter of $3.00\/gallon gas lies just over the horizon.  What candidate is foolish enough to conjure up those recent images?  Would-be presidential candidate Bill First, apparently. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow, wasn’t it just a few weeks ago that all the wise D.C. pundits were saying that President Bush need only mention terrorism and patriotic voters would flock to the GOP? Now this: Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist says if Republican candidates want to succeed on Election Day, they should turn their focus away from […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}