{"id":12293,"date":"2011-12-07T13:58:28","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T18:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=12293"},"modified":"2011-12-08T14:53:18","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T19:53:18","slug":"re-santorum-v-newt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12293\/re-santorum-v-newt\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: Santorum v. Newt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ashton makes <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12285\/santorum-v-newt-thanks-to-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\">great points<\/a> about how the Trump debate could offer Rick Santorum one last chance to make a splash. He REALLY needs to carefully prepare some explosive sound bites. He actually has done very well in the debates at making overall, sustained points, in understandable fashion. But he hasn&#8217;t done so in ways that are memorable or galvanizing. I think sound-bite politics is a hugely unfortunate aspect of today&#8217;s campaigns. But it is an essential skill to master.\u00a0 It&#8217;s actually not easy, because it needs to sound substantive enough to NOT sound gimmicky, but it needs to be a bit gimmicky in order to be memorable enough to do real good. It&#8217;s even harder when you need to do it against somebody who buries you in words the way Gingrich does.<\/p>\n<p>In short, opportunity knocks, but it&#8217;s a heavy door to open&#8230;. or something like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashton makes great points about how the Trump debate could offer Rick Santorum one last chance to make a splash. He REALLY needs to carefully prepare some explosive sound bites. He actually has done very well in the debates at making overall, sustained points, in understandable fashion. But he hasn&#8217;t done so in ways that [&hellip;]<\/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":[3106,2795,3227],"class_list":["post-12293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-gingrich","tag-santorum","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12293","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=12293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12317,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12293\/revisions\/12317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}