{"id":11922,"date":"2011-11-05T18:26:41","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T22:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=11922"},"modified":"2011-11-05T18:26:41","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T22:26:41","slug":"romney-ryan-inches-closer-to-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/11922\/romney-ryan-inches-closer-to-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney-Ryan Inches Closer to Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/right-turn\/post\/exclusive-interview-paul-ryan-has-nothing-but-praise-for-romney-plan\/2011\/11\/04\/gIQAgUaSmM_blog.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer Rubin&#8217;s interview<\/a> with House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) gives more reason to surmise that a pairing of him and GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney as the 2012 Republican ticket.\u00a0 Rubin says that Ryan&#8217;s response to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2011\/11\/04\/romney_details_spending_cuts_in_dc_speech_111951.html\" target=\"_blank\">Romney&#8217;s entitlement reform plan<\/a> was &#8220;effusive&#8221; and a clear statement of support from the leading elected conservative intellectual.<\/p>\n<p>With Romney mired in an electoral no-man&#8217;s land &#8211; leading all other challengers but only garnering 25% support &#8211; adding Ryan to his team sometime next year would probably be enough to get disaffected Tea Party and conservative support otherwise underwhelmed with <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2011\/11\/03\/romney-in-2002-hey-liberals-you-really-need-me-in-washington\/\" target=\"_blank\">Romney&#8217;s checkered history<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Rubin&#8217;s interview with House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) gives more reason to surmise that a pairing of him and GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney as the 2012 Republican ticket.\u00a0 Rubin says that Ryan&#8217;s response to Romney&#8217;s entitlement reform plan was &#8220;effusive&#8221; and a clear statement of support from the leading elected conservative intellectual. [&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":[2034,70,928,160,802,28],"class_list":["post-11922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-election","tag-budget","tag-conservative","tag-mitt-romney","tag-paul-ryan","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11922","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=11922"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11925,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11922\/revisions\/11925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}