{"id":10974,"date":"2011-08-20T20:11:26","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T00:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10974"},"modified":"2011-08-20T20:11:26","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T00:11:26","slug":"now-liberals-think-huntsman-candidacy-doomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10974\/now-liberals-think-huntsman-candidacy-doomed\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Liberals Think Huntsman Candidacy Doomed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a barrage of base-hating tweets, even the liberal website <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2011\/08\/is-he-even-trying-huntsmans-tweets-almost-seem-designed-to-alienate-the-gop-base.php?ref=fpb\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Talking Points Memo<\/em><\/a> thinks former Utah Governor and Obama China Ambassador Jon Huntsman\u2019s GOP presidential campaign is headed for failure.<\/p>\n<p>TPM\u2019s headline says it all: \u201cIs He Even Trying?\u00a0 Huntsman Seems Determined to Alienate the GOP Base<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54\/1010-is-jon-huntsman-the-next-john-mccain \" target=\"_blank\">CFIF<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redstate.com\/erick\/2011\/05\/09\/why-i-will-not-support-jon-huntsman\/\" target=\"_blank\">others<\/a> have been all over Huntsman\u2019s record, noting how deliberately incompatible it is with almost any slice of the Republican electorate, let alone conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>If voters want a former governor with corporate ties and moderate-to-liberal positions, they\u2019ll vote for Mitt Romney.\u00a0 If they want someone else, it won\u2019t be Huntsman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a barrage of base-hating tweets, even the liberal website Talking Points Memo thinks former Utah Governor and Obama China Ambassador Jon Huntsman\u2019s GOP presidential campaign is headed for failure. TPM\u2019s headline says it all: \u201cIs He Even Trying?\u00a0 Huntsman Seems Determined to Alienate the GOP Base CFIF and others have been all over Huntsman\u2019s [&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":[914,2652,160],"class_list":["post-10974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-jon-huntsman","tag-mitt-romney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10974","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=10974"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10977,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10974\/revisions\/10977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}