{"id":12139,"date":"2011-11-23T15:52:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T20:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=12139"},"modified":"2011-11-23T15:52:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T20:52:43","slug":"update-huckabee-not-endorsing-romney-but-thune-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12139\/update-huckabee-not-endorsing-romney-but-thune-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Huckabee NOT Endorsing Romney (But Thune Is)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, the media &#8211; and I &#8211; misread Mike Huckabee&#8217;s remarks to South Carolina Tea Party members as an endorsement of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/11\/23\/mike-huckabee-endorsement_n_1109530.html\" target=\"_blank\">fuller quote<\/a> of Huckabee&#8217;s answer to whether conservatives should stay home on Election Day 2012 if Romney is the Republican nominee:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would be real tragic if they stayed out. Mitt Romney may not be  their first choice, but Mitt Romney every day of the week and twice on  Sunday is going to be a much more effective president for issues that  they care about than Barack Obama.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other news, one-time 2012 aspirant Senator <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/11\/23\/gop-sen-thune-endorses-romney-in-iowa\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Thune (R-SD) did endorse Romney today<\/a> in Iowa.\u00a0 Even without Huckabee&#8217;s support, Romney is building up Beltway conservative bona fides with Thune and freshman Senator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxboston.com\/dpp\/news\/politics\/romney-floats-vp-options-says-new-hampshires-ayotte-is-on-the-list-20111123\" target=\"_blank\">Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) coming on board<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, the media &#8211; and I &#8211; misread Mike Huckabee&#8217;s remarks to South Carolina Tea Party members as an endorsement of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a fuller quote of Huckabee&#8217;s answer to whether conservatives should stay home on Election Day 2012 if Romney is the Republican nominee: &#8220;It would be real tragic if [&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":[914,2344,3210,201,160,1784],"class_list":["post-12139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-john-thune","tag-kelly-ayotte","tag-mike-huckabee","tag-mitt-romney","tag-republican"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12139","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=12139"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12143,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12139\/revisions\/12143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}