{"id":447958,"date":"2010-03-19T15:05:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T19:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=79779"},"modified":"2010-03-19T15:05:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T19:05:32","slug":"new-mexico-republicans-try-to-bring-down-anti-war-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/447958","title":{"rendered":"New Mexico Republicans Try to Bring Down Anti-War Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year I profiled Adam Kokesh<\/a>, an Iraq War veteran who became a fiery anti-war activist and launched a 2010 GOP bid for Congress. Since then, he’s become a more credible candidate for the nomination in NM-3, typically the bluest district in New Mexico — and has come under attack from conservative bloggers like Michelle Malkin and from Republican activists who want to prevent the party from nominating an anti-war libertarian.<\/p>\n

The first result of that opposition was a disappointing showing at the state party convention where Kokesh got only 19.6 percent support<\/a> — technically enough to get him a ballot slot without getting additional signatures from voters, but the party’s not yet allowing that. Here, via a libertarian source, is one of two “smear cards” (the Kokesh campaign term) passed out at the convention.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"kokesh\"<\/p>\n

Some decoding:<\/p>\n

– Kokesh, like many Paul acolytes, has indulged the out-there right with an occasional interview, and the reference at the top of this card seems to be to the Kokesh appearance on “The InfoWarrior,”<\/a> a radio show hosted by Jason Bermas. He’s best known for his role in the 9\/11 truth documentary “Loose Change,” but they didn’t touch on those issues in the interview at all.<\/p>\n

– Kokesh did appear at “Shoe Bush out of office” rally on January 19, 2009, but in that still captured on the flier, he’s holding up the shoe<\/a> he’s “saving for Obama,” in case the new president escalates one of America’s wars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year I profiled Adam Kokesh, an Iraq War veteran who became a fiery anti-war activist and launched a 2010 GOP bid for Congress. Since then, he’s become a more credible candidate for the nomination in NM-3, typically the bluest district in New Mexico — and has come under attack from conservative bloggers like Michelle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}