{"id":10416,"date":"2011-07-11T21:18:22","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T01:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10416"},"modified":"2011-07-11T21:18:22","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T01:18:22","slug":"tea-party-presidential-candidates-%e2%80%9con-the-issues%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10416\/tea-party-presidential-candidates-%e2%80%9con-the-issues%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea Party Presidential Candidates \u201cOn the Issues\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chron.com\/txpotomac\/2011\/07\/perry-watch-rick-perry-has-strong-tea-party-ties-but-hed-have-to-battle-gop-presidential-candidates-for-their-backing\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Houston Chronicle<\/em><\/a> (scroll to the bottom) has a helpful side-by-side chart comparing the positions of declared and presumptive GOP presidential candidates, all of whom lean in one way or another toward the Tea Party.\u00a0 The line-up includes Texas Governor Rick Perry, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, Texas Rep. Ron Paul, and businessman Herman Cain.<\/p>\n<p>Some highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>AZ Immigration Law:<\/strong> Bachmann and Cain support it; Paul has \u201csome reservations,\u201d and Perry thinks it \u201cwould not be the right direction for Texas\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Middle East Foreign Policy:<\/strong> Bachmann and Perry support Israel; Paul wants troop withdrawals from the Middle East; Cain is unequivocal: \u201cYou mess with Israel, you\u2019re messing with the U.S.A.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Economy:<\/strong> Bachmann, Perry and Cain all support tax cuts; Paul wants to go even farther: abolish the Federal Reserve and reestablish the gold standard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here\u2019s hoping for a substantive debate featuring all these candidates and their ideas.\u00a0 America needs it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Chronicle (scroll to the bottom) has a helpful side-by-side chart comparing the positions of declared and presumptive GOP presidential candidates, all of whom lean in one way or another toward the Tea Party.\u00a0 The line-up includes Texas Governor Rick Perry, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, Texas Rep. Ron Paul, and businessman Herman Cain. Some [&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":[914,19,544,216,1712,2860,2859,981,386,2066,1125,838,218,28],"class_list":["post-10416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-economy","tag-federal-reserve","tag-foreign-policy","tag-gold-standard","tag-herman-cain","tag-houston-chronicle","tag-immigration","tag-israel","tag-michele-bachmann","tag-middle-east","tag-rick-perry","tag-ron-paul","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10416","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=10416"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10421,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10416\/revisions\/10421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}