{"id":10066,"date":"2011-06-10T15:47:08","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T19:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10066"},"modified":"2011-06-10T15:47:08","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T19:47:08","slug":"media-faults-perry-for-being-conservative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10066\/media-faults-perry-for-being-conservative\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Faults Perry for being Conservative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that didn\u2019t take long.\u00a0 On the day after Rick Perry for President speculation gained new momentum with two of his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0611\/56695.html\" target=\"_blank\">longtime political aides<\/a> bolting Newt Gingrich\u2019s campaign, the liberal media is attacking the Texas Republican governor for coordinating a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/on-faith\/post\/is-texas-gov-perrys-call-to-prayer-constitutional\/2011\/06\/10\/AGWQDoOH_blog.html \" target=\"_blank\">day of prayer and fasting<\/a>\u201d for national healing in Houston on August 6.<\/p>\n<p>Putting aside the arguments for and against Perry\u2019s event, the more the media explains Perry\u2019s commitment to an evangelical Christian worldview, the more social conservative primary voters in Iowa are sure to perk up.\u00a0 Moreover, Perry is already considered the first-in-the-nation-governor to pick up the Tea Party mantle of limited government, so perhaps those flinty New Englanders in New Hampshire\u2019s first-in-the-nation-primary might take a look at a guy who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KTWKp_ucGLM\" target=\"_blank\">takes the 10th Amendment seriously<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But what about foreign policy?\u00a0 Let\u2019s just say that as a former Air Force fighter pilot from Texas, Perry should have no trouble articulating something pleasing to pro-military Republican voters.<\/p>\n<p>As with Sarah Palin, the mainstream media doesn\u2019t seem to realize that highlighting Perry\u2019s conservatism actually makes him <em>more<\/em> attractive to Republican voters. \u00a0So go ahead, journos!\u00a0 Keep <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/politics\/2011\/06\/10\/241830\/top-10-thing-texas-gov-rick-perry\/\" target=\"_blank\">knocking Perry<\/a> for being a social, fiscal, and national security conservative.\u00a0 It only helps grow the brand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that didn\u2019t take long.\u00a0 On the day after Rick Perry for President speculation gained new momentum with two of his longtime political aides bolting Newt Gingrich\u2019s campaign, the liberal media is attacking the Texas Republican governor for coordinating a \u201cday of prayer and fasting\u201d for national healing in Houston on August 6. Putting aside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[914,928,2725,2705,838,839,561],"class_list":["post-10066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-conservative","tag-iowa","tag-new-hampshire","tag-rick-perry","tag-tenth-amendment","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10066"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10070,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10066\/revisions\/10070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}