{"id":12266,"date":"2011-12-06T12:43:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T17:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=12266"},"modified":"2011-12-06T12:43:49","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T17:43:49","slug":"romney-gingrich-and%e2%80%a6santorum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12266\/romney-gingrich-and%e2%80%a6santorum\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney, Gingrich and\u2026Santorum?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though there are many positive things to say about Rick Santorum&#8217;s candidacy \u2013 battle-tested conservative on national security, welfare reform and foundational issues like family and marriage \u2013 he has yet to catch anything resembling a break while seemingly every other Republican running for president has (witness the regrettable <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2011\/sep\/22\/news\/la-pn-new-hampshire-gop-poll-20110922 \" target=\"_blank\">Jon Huntsman ticking up in New Hampshire<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Unlike frontrunners <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intel\/2011\/12\/romney-now-favors-payroll-tax-cut-extension.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mitt Romney<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/politics\/articles\/2011\/12\/06\/gingrich_amassing_a_pile_of_policy_shifts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Newt Gingrich<\/a>, Rick Santorum has no personal baggage, and has not flip-flopped on any principled issue since entering public life twenty years ago.\u00a0 As we\u2019ve discussed before, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/43-taxes-and-economy\/1075-the-nation-could-use-santorum-omics\" target=\"_blank\">Santorum has great ideas on personal and corporate tax reform<\/a> that would lead to real economic growth.\u00a0 So, with the base refusing to support Mitt Romney and others skittish of Newt Gingrich\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/gingrich-scolds-pelosi-for-suggesting-shed-air-ethics-charges\/2011\/12\/06\/gIQA369bZO_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">past and future<\/a>, why can\u2019t Rick get a break?\u00a0 Is it media bias over his stance on social issues?\u00a0 Bad debate performances?\u00a0 Does he lack contacts with big donors?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com\/article\/while-frontrunners-feud-santorum-wins-gop-debate\" target=\"_blank\">Byron York<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com\/article\/york-why-santorum-runs\" target=\"_blank\">written<\/a> several <a href=\"http:\/\/campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com\/article\/york-why-santorum-runs \" target=\"_blank\">pieces<\/a> anticipating an Iowa surge for Santorum, but so far\u2026nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though there are many positive things to say about Rick Santorum&#8217;s candidacy \u2013 battle-tested conservative on national security, welfare reform and foundational issues like family and marriage \u2013 he has yet to catch anything resembling a break while seemingly every other Republican running for president has (witness the regrettable Jon Huntsman ticking up in New [&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":[2398,2725,2652,160,869,1447,1084],"class_list":["post-12266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-campaign","tag-iowa","tag-jon-huntsman","tag-mitt-romney","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-reform","tag-rick-santorum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12266","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=12266"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12270,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12266\/revisions\/12270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}