{"id":12130,"date":"2011-11-22T19:27:51","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T00:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=12130"},"modified":"2011-11-22T19:27:51","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T00:27:51","slug":"huckabee-endorses-romney-tells-tea-party-to-do-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12130\/huckabee-endorses-romney-tells-tea-party-to-do-the-same\/","title":{"rendered":"Huckabee Endorses Romney, Tells Tea Party To Do the Same"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a head-scratching move, Mike Huckabee told South Carolina Tea Partiers that it\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestatecolumn.com\/articles\/mike-huckabee-urges-tea-party-to-vote-for-mitt-romney\/\" target=\"_blank\">time to support Mitt Romney<\/a> for president.\u00a0 How\u2019s this for emphasis:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI think Republicans and conservatives and the Tea Party need to get behind him and say, \u2018You may not be our first choice, but between you and Obama, I\u2019ll vote 40 times to get you elected,\u201d Huckabee said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The biggest loser with the socially conservative Huckabee\u2019s endorsement of the socially moderate Romney is GOP candidate Rick Santorum.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com\/article\/iowa-quiet-surge-long-shot-santorum\" target=\"_blank\">Pundit chatter<\/a> pegged Santorum as the beneficiary of the anti-Romney social conservatives in Iowa, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2012\/president\/ia\/iowa_republican_presidential_primary-1588.html \" target=\"_blank\">current poll numbers<\/a> show Santorum still trailing badly.\u00a0 There\u2019s still time for him to make a move, but Huckabee\u2019s endorsement of Romney just cut it in half.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a head-scratching move, Mike Huckabee told South Carolina Tea Partiers that it\u2019s time to support Mitt Romney for president.\u00a0 How\u2019s this for emphasis: \u201cI think Republicans and conservatives and the Tea Party need to get behind him and say, \u2018You may not be our first choice, but between you and Obama, I\u2019ll vote 40 [&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":[914,2725,201,160,1084,1272,28],"class_list":["post-12130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-iowa","tag-mike-huckabee","tag-mitt-romney","tag-rick-santorum","tag-south-carolina","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12130","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=12130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12132,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12130\/revisions\/12132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}