{"id":1161,"date":"2008-02-01T10:26:07","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T14:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/01\/the-hill-mc-cain-nearly-pulled-a-jeffords\/"},"modified":"2008-02-01T10:26:07","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T14:26:07","slug":"the-hill-mc-cain-nearly-pulled-a-jeffords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1161","title":{"rendered":"The Hill: Mc Cain Nearly Pulled a Jeffords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/leading-the-news\/democrats-say-mccain-nearly-abandoned-gop-2007-03-28.html\">This from The Hill.com:<\/a><strong>Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) was close to leaving the Republican Party in 2001, weeks before then-Sen. Jim Jeffords (Vt.) famously announced his decision to become an Independent, according to former Democratic lawmakers who say they were involved in the discussions.<\/strong><br \/>\n If this surprises any of you, well, than you are idiots. John McCain may be many things, but a conservative, he is not, and has never been. According to the article, democrats contacted Jeffords and Lincoln Chafee, but, and here&#8217;s a nice one, McCain came to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This from The Hill.com:Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) was close to leaving the Republican Party in 2001, &hellip; <a title=\"The Hill: Mc Cain Nearly Pulled a Jeffords\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1161\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Hill: Mc Cain Nearly Pulled a Jeffords<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}