{"id":10237,"date":"2011-06-27T14:30:15","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T18:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10237"},"modified":"2011-06-27T14:30:15","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T18:30:15","slug":"perry-paul-and-bachmann-the-tea-party-trinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10237\/perry-paul-and-bachmann-the-tea-party-trinity\/","title":{"rendered":"Perry, Paul, and Bachmann: The Tea Party Trinity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/27\/tea-party-leaders-look-to-bachmann-paul-and-perry\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a> reports of a \u201ccompletely unscientific\u201d voice-vote poll of about 100 Tea Party activists gathering at the D.C. offices of FreedomWorks.\u00a0 The top vote getter for president was Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) who announced her (formal) candidacy today.\u00a0 Texas Republicans Governor Rick Perry and Rep. Ron Paul were close seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the three has a unique mix of conservatism to attract Tea Party and larger GOP support.\u00a0 All agree on fundamental themes like American Exceptionalism, low taxes, the free market, and traditional values.\u00a0 Each differs, though, in the formula for achieving those goals.<\/p>\n<p>That is a good thing.\u00a0 Conservatives can \u2013 and should \u2013 differ about means, but not ends.\u00a0 Goals are a matter of principle.\u00a0 How we get there should be the subject of vigorous debate.<\/p>\n<p>The reporters conducting their poll may think the results were \u201ccompletely unscientific,\u201d but they needn\u2019t worry.\u00a0 The boos for Mitt Romney (R-MA) and Jon Huntsman (R-UT), and the indifference toward Tim Pawlenty (R-MN), show that the media\u2019s favorites are in real trouble with the people who will decide the 2012 GOP presidential nomination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times reports of a \u201ccompletely unscientific\u201d voice-vote poll of about 100 Tea Party activists gathering at the D.C. offices of FreedomWorks.\u00a0 The top vote getter for president was Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) who announced her (formal) candidacy today.\u00a0 Texas Republicans Governor Rick Perry and Rep. Ron Paul were close seconds. Each of [&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":[841,2652,2066,160,838,218,28],"class_list":["post-10237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-elections","tag-jon-huntsman","tag-michele-bachmann","tag-mitt-romney","tag-rick-perry","tag-ron-paul","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10237","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=10237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10239,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10237\/revisions\/10239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}