{"id":11235,"date":"2011-09-12T11:06:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T15:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=11235"},"modified":"2011-09-12T17:07:15","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T21:07:15","slug":"pawlenty-of-pleading-to-be-number-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/11235\/pawlenty-of-pleading-to-be-number-two\/","title":{"rendered":"P(aw)lenty of Pleading to Be Number Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I guess Tim Pawlenty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54\/1029-pawlentys-bigger-failing\">really didn&#8217;t mean it<\/a> when he took shots at <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/56-health-care\/997-romney-gingrich-flunk-poli-philosophy\">&#8220;Obamneycare.&#8221;<\/a> Now the former Minnesota governor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/276875\/my-endorsement-mitt-romney-president-tim-pawlenty\">has endorsed<\/a> the author of that plan, Mitt Romney, for president.<\/p>\n<p>Methinks what Pawlenty is <em>really <\/em>saying is: &#8220;Please, please, <em>please<\/em> Mr. Romney, if you get the nomination, choose me for vice president! I <em>promise<\/em> I&#8217;m your man. Oh pleaseohpleaseohpleaseohplease! I really didn&#8217;t mean that bit about Obamneycare. It wasn&#8217;t even an intentional slight, and I wasn&#8217;t trying to be funny. I just had a slip of the tongue. That&#8217;s why I didn&#8217;t repeat it in that debate: I really didn&#8217;t mean it in the first place. PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASE!!!! I promise I&#8217;ll be good.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not really an excerpt, but a summary: Tim Pawlenty Sucks Up to Mitt Romney in order to be Veep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[35,3027,146,3026],"class_list":["post-11235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-obamacare","tag-obamneycare","tag-pawlenty","tag-romney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11235","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11252,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11235\/revisions\/11252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}