{"id":8451,"date":"2011-01-25T23:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T04:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8451"},"modified":"2011-01-26T10:14:24","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T15:14:24","slug":"liberals-on-another-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8451\/liberals-on-another-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals, on Another Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought President Obama&#8217;s tin-eared State of the Union speech was the last word in liberal misfires, then you clearly haven&#8217;t been paying close enough attention to the early machinations surrounding the 2012 U.S. Senate race in Connecticut. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/senate-races\/139677-movement-underway-to-draft-olbermann-for-senate-\" target=\"_blank\">The Hill<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Liberals want Keith Olbermann to run for retiring Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman&#8217;s (I-Conn.) seat.<\/p>\n<p>The ploy to coax the former MSNBC host into the Democratic Senate primary was hatched by activists attending a <strong>conference<\/strong> in Pennsylvania over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facebook<\/strong> and <strong>Twitter<\/strong> pages are already active and a website is expected to go up in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re using our full set of campaign tools but they won\u2019t go active until we get a little downtime while we\u2019re in D.C.,&#8221; a blogger by the name of Stranded Wind wrote on the liberal website Daily Kos.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nice of Stranded Wind to get involved. Also nice of him to have a handle that will perfectly describe the Olbermann campaign the day after it goes down to defeat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought President Obama&#8217;s tin-eared State of the Union speech was the last word in liberal misfires, then you clearly haven&#8217;t been paying close enough attention to the early machinations surrounding the 2012 U.S. Senate race in Connecticut. According to The Hill: Liberals want Keith Olbermann to run for retiring Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2336,143,1290,96,2000,784],"class_list":["post-8451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-senate-races","tag-barack-obama","tag-connecticut","tag-keith-olbermann","tag-liberals","tag-state-of-the-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8451","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8453,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8451\/revisions\/8453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}