{"id":369341,"date":"2018-07-14T06:21:02","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T05:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/other-revolving-doors-dissident-voice\/"},"modified":"2018-07-14T06:21:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T05:21:02","slug":"other-revolving-doors-dissident-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/other-revolving-doors-dissident-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Revolving Doors | Dissident Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>It\u2019s more than doors between government and the businesses that they supposedly regulate that go round and round.\u00a0 One of the other swinging doors is between the Democratic and Republican Parties.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A second door<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the best known case is when Al Gore ran for president in 2000, he picked Joe Lieberman as his running mate.\u00a0 Then, in 2008, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/18\/world\/americas\/18iht-lieberman.1.10144352.html\">Lieberman showed up at the Republican national convention<\/a> to endorse John McCain for president.\u00a0 Between those two campaigns, John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, was rumored to be leaning to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/explainer\/2004\/03\/could_kerry_pick_mccain_for_vp.html\">ask Republican John McCain<\/a> to be his running mate.<\/p>\n<p>Had Al Gore won, Lieberman would most likely have been the subsequent Democratic nominee for president.\u00a0 Had John Kerry won with McCain on the ticket, McCain would have been the heir apparent to the \u201cDemocratic Party\u201d crown.\u00a0 Whether Lieberman or McCain, Democrats across the country would have been told to bow in reverence to their party\u2019s red-blue nominee for president.<\/p>\n<p>This was hardly the first time such a switcheroo blossomed in American politics.\u00a0 In 1864, Republican Abraham Lincoln dumped his sitting vice-president to ask <a href=\"https:\/\/history.stackexchange.com\/questions\/20668\/why-did-abraham-lincoln-choose-andrew-johnson-as-a-vice-presidential-running-mat\">Democrat Andrew Johnson<\/a> to be his running mate.\u00a0 After Lincoln\u2019s murder, US voters, who had selected a Republican to be their president, found him replaced by a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>Though such examples at the presidential level may be enshrined in history books, they happen all the time at the local level.\u00a0 In 1963, the Texas Young Democrats&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/07\/other-revolving-doors\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s more than doors between government and the businesses that they supposedly regulate that go round and round.\u00a0 One of the other swinging doors is between the Democratic and Republican Parties. A second door Perhaps the best known case is when Al Gore ran for president in 2000, he picked Joe Lieberman as his running [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-369341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}