{"id":873,"date":"2006-10-12T09:35:55","date_gmt":"2006-10-12T14:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=873"},"modified":"2006-10-12T09:35:55","modified_gmt":"2006-10-12T14:35:55","slug":"on-presidential-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=873","title":{"rendered":"On Presidential Ambitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Virginia Governor Mark Warner is expected to announce today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/10\/12\/AR2006101200510.html\">that he won&#8217;t be seeking the Democratic Presidential nomination for 2008<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m disappointed&#8211;Warner did great things in Virginia, righting the state&#8217;s economy after the terms of now-Senator George Allen and Jim Gilmore whose tax policies put the state into the red.  He&#8217;d have been a formidable candidate, much as Bill Clinton was in 1992&#8211;a Washington outsider, a governer with experience in generating economic growth, formulating a sane tax policy, and with progressive ideas.<\/p>\n<p>But the Democratic field was looking crowded.  I would have a difficult time now choosing between former Senator John Edwards, current Senator John Kerry, General Wesley Clark, even Howard Dean if he chose to run again.  Warner&#8217;s decision not to run, while unfortunate, may be better for the Democratic party in the coming year where Edwards and Warner might have been splitting the same progressive vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Virginia Governor Mark Warner is expected to announce today that he won&#8217;t be seeking the Democratic Presidential nomination for 2008. I&#8217;m disappointed&#8211;Warner did great things in Virginia, righting the state&#8217;s economy after the terms of now-Senator George Allen and Jim Gilmore whose tax policies put the state into the red. He&#8217;d have been a<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=873\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Presidential Ambitions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[4108],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}