{"id":16737,"date":"2012-12-20T09:19:48","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T14:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16737"},"modified":"2012-12-20T09:19:48","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T14:19:48","slug":"ben-affleck-to-replace-john-kerry-in-the-u-s-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16737\/ben-affleck-to-replace-john-kerry-in-the-u-s-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Affleck to Replace John Kerry in the U.S. Senate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If U.S. Senator John Kerry (D-MA) becomes the next Secretary of State, expect several dominos to fall.\u00a0 Soon-to-be-former Senator <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2012\/12\/19\/massachusetts-conservatives-opposing-scott-browns-efforts-to-restructure-state-gop\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Brown<\/a> seems poised to run in yet another special election.\u00a0 Bay State Tea Party groups will have to decide whether to support a member-turned-establishment figure like Brown over someone more conservative, but arguably less able to win.<\/p>\n<p>And then there\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2012\/12\/19\/ben-affleck-meets-with-john-kerry-amid-rumors-of-senate-run\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Affleck<\/a>.\u00a0 What?\u00a0 According to The Daily Caller, Affleck, the Hollywood star and Massachusetts native, recently met privately with Senator Kerry in Washington, D.C., possibly to discuss running for the latter\u2019s open seat in 2013.\u00a0 If you\u2019re looking for qualifications, Affleck graduated from Harvard, won an Academy Award for co-writing \u201cGood Will Hunting,\u201d and founded the East Congo Initiative.\u00a0 Oh, he\u2019s also married to actress Jennifer Garner.<\/p>\n<p>But if Affleck isn\u2019t your ideal Senator, remember, it could be worse.\u00a0 Minnesota gave us Saturday Night Live\u2019s Al Franken.\u00a0 If Affleck takes a pass, America could get his friend and Palin-hater, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C6urw_PWHYk \" target=\"_blank\">Matt Damon<\/a>.\u00a0 Can you imagine Damon and Elizabeth Warren together?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If U.S. Senator John Kerry (D-MA) becomes the next Secretary of State, expect several dominos to fall.\u00a0 Soon-to-be-former Senator Scott Brown seems poised to run in yet another special election.\u00a0 Bay State Tea Party groups will have to decide whether to support a member-turned-establishment figure like Brown over someone more conservative, but arguably less able [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3971,2975,599,159,3972,725,1191,28,178],"class_list":["post-16737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-ben-affleck","tag-elizabeth-warren","tag-john-kerry","tag-massachusetts","tag-matt-damon","tag-scott-brown","tag-special-election","tag-tea-party","tag-u-s-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16737"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16740,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16737\/revisions\/16740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}