{"id":57378,"date":"2024-07-30T11:55:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T11:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57378"},"modified":"2024-07-30T11:55:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T11:55:58","slug":"be-on-guard-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57378","title":{"rendered":"Be on guard, Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n\r\n<p>A certain level of smugness appears to be creeping into coverage of the 2024 presidential campaign.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Just as Republicans were feeling all gooey about Donald Trump&#8217;s chances against President Biden, the tide has turned significantly in favor of Kamala Harris, who succeeded Biden as the Democrats&#8217; frontrunner for the party nomination.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>A word to the wise: Republican campaign hatchet men (and women) have turned &#8220;negative campaigning&#8221; into an art form. The most recent incarnation of it goes back to around 1988. I got to cover that campaign while working in Beaumont, Texas, at the Beaumont Enterprise.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>You remember it, right? Massachusetts Gov. Mike Dukakis was riding high on a 17 percentage point lead over Vice President Bush. He came out of his party&#8217;s Atlanta convention ready to rock &#8216;n roll once he got into the White House. Then the attacks came from Bush and his team. Dukakis was deemed soft on crime because he opposed the death penalty; he granted a furlough to a killer who, while on that furlough, committed another violent crime.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Let&#8217;s not forget that disastrous &#8220;photo op&#8221; of Dukakis in the tank.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The Democrat&#8217;s lead shrank to zero, then Bush won the election in a landslide over Dukakis.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I&#8217;m just sayin&#8217;, Democrats &#8230; do not get smug over Kamala Harris&#8217;s remarkable rollout of her campaign.<\/p>\r\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A certain level of smugness appears to be creeping into coverage of the 2024 presidential campaign. Just as Republicans were feeling all gooey about Donald Trump&#8217;s chances against President Biden, the tide has turned significantly in favor of Kamala Harris, who succeeded Biden as the Democrats&#8217; frontrunner for the party nomination. A word to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57378\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Be on guard, Democrats<\/span> <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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[9543,2505,7419,10376],"class_list":["post-57378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2024-election","tag-joe-biden","tag-maga","tag-mike-dukakis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57380,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57378\/revisions\/57380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}