{"id":10983,"date":"2011-08-22T14:30:02","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T18:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10983"},"modified":"2011-08-22T14:30:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T18:30:02","slug":"more-liberal-rationalizations-for-doomed-huntsman-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10983\/more-liberal-rationalizations-for-doomed-huntsman-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"More Liberal Rationalizations for Doomed Huntsman Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The liberal obituaries for the mostly-dead Huntsman for President campaign get an interesting addition from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2011\/08\/22\/jon-huntsman-s-reasonable-man-act.html \" target=\"_blank\">Michael Tomasky<\/a> at the <em>Daily Beast<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Huntsman strategy here is obvious: position himself as the moderate and reasonable guy on the off chance Republicans decide to be moderate and reasonable. We must assume he is aware that his odds on this are rather long, so what he\u2019s really hoping for is to be the consensus candidate of 2016. Maybe the party just has to go through this purge, this Reign of Terror; so just let it do that, and once it does and nominates an extremist who can\u2019t beat a weak incumbent during a time of 9 percent unemployment rates, and the heads are piled high enough in the tumbrels and enough people finally have returned to their senses, he will ride the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thermidorian_Reaction\">Thermidorian wave<\/a> to victory after Obama leaves town.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, the Tea Party in particular and the conservative movement in general is creating a \u201cReign of Terror\u201d that is depriving liberals of the most progressive member of the GOP presidential pack from facing Obama next year?<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a frightful reality fast-approaching, but it isn\u2019t a 2012 match-up seeing who\u2019s less conservative.\u00a0 It\u2019s the fiscal and cultural time-bomb that is ticking ever closer to exploding if Barack Obama or Jon Huntsman\u2019s views are put into practice.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: Political Wire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The liberal obituaries for the mostly-dead Huntsman for President campaign get an interesting addition from Michael Tomasky at the Daily Beast: The Huntsman strategy here is obvious: position himself as the moderate and reasonable guy on the off chance Republicans decide to be moderate and reasonable. We must assume he is aware that his odds [&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":[914,143,928,2976,56,2652,28],"class_list":["post-10983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-barack-obama","tag-conservative","tag-fiscal","tag-government","tag-jon-huntsman","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10983","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=10983"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10990,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10983\/revisions\/10990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}