{"id":365,"date":"2008-12-18T22:01:32","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T22:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=365"},"modified":"2008-12-18T22:01:32","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T22:01:32","slug":"caroline_kennedy_for_senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=365","title":{"rendered":"Caroline Kennedy For Senate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB122955250577415709.html\">Wall Street Journal <\/a>had an article by John Fund on the Caroline Kennedy quest for the Senate seat vacated by Hillary Clinton.&nbsp; He points out the difference between the way the candidacy of Caroline Kennedy is being treated and the way that Sarah Palin was treated while running for Vice-President.&nbsp; This is a case of an unelected governor appointing someone to a normally elected position.&nbsp; John Fund points out that Governor Paterson would be better off appointing New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, as Andrew Cuomo might challenge him in the next New York governor&#8217;s race.<\/p>\n<p>Personally,&nbsp;considering the people New York has sent to Washington over past years, Caroline Kennedy would not be an awful appointment.&nbsp; She is actually a New Yorker.&nbsp; That&#8217;s a plus (she might even be a Yankees fan!).&nbsp; She is also an intelligent, classy lady (why in the world would she want to go to Washington?).&nbsp; Admittedly, there are probably people who have paid their dues who would do a good job, but I suspect she will work hard and try to represent the people of&nbsp;state of New York.&nbsp; There will be an election for that senate seat in 2012, and then the people of New York will be able to judge the performance of whoever is appointed.&nbsp; Until then, they could do worse than Caroline Kennedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday&#8217;s Wall Street Journal had an article by John Fund on the Caroline Kennedy quest for the Senate seat vacated by Hillary Clinton.&nbsp; He points out the difference between the way the candidacy of Caroline Kennedy is being treated and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=365\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}