{"id":10172,"date":"2011-06-21T18:38:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T22:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10172"},"modified":"2011-06-22T10:11:55","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T14:11:55","slug":"harry-reid-endorses-huntsman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10172\/harry-reid-endorses-huntsman\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Reid Endorses Huntsman?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, as CFIF&#8217;s own Ashton Ellis was busy delineating the parade of horribles that is former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman&#8217;s record, he noted that one of the more chilling (and insightful) stories involving Huntsman in recent months was <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9538\/carter-gives-huntsman-praise-kiss-of-death\/\" target=\"_blank\">the quasi-endorsement offered to him by Jimmy Carter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, Huntsman (who is an official GOP presidential candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/jon-huntsman-former-governor-and-ambassador-to-china-announces-gop-presidential-bid\/2011\/06\/21\/AGCUNqeH_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">as of this morning<\/a>) keeps bringing the hits. The latest comes from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. As <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/06\/21\/top-dem-picks-huntsman\/\" target=\"_blank\">CNN&#8217;s Political Ticker reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ventured into the 2012 presidential waiting game Tuesday, offering up his pick for the Republican presidential nomination.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I had a choice, I would favor Huntsman over Romney,&#8221; Reid told reporters after a meeting on Capitol Hill. &#8220;But I don&#8217;t have a choice in that race.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Poor Harry. He&#8217;s been through a lot because of the declining influence of Democrats in Congress over the last year. And now he won&#8217;t even get one red cent for creating a pitch-perfect campaign ad for Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n<p>As for Huntsman, he&#8217;s now earned the approval of President Obama, former President Carter, and Harry Reid. He&#8217;s one endorsement in <em>The Nation<\/em> away from being the next Democratic presidential nominee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, as CFIF&#8217;s own Ashton Ellis was busy delineating the parade of horribles that is former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman&#8217;s record, he noted that one of the more chilling (and insightful) stories involving Huntsman in recent months was the quasi-endorsement offered to him by Jimmy Carter. Well, Huntsman (who is an official [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[914,77,2652,160],"class_list":["post-10172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-harry-reid","tag-jon-huntsman","tag-mitt-romney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10172","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10172"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10176,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10172\/revisions\/10176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}