{"id":12361,"date":"2011-12-09T17:00:11","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T22:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=12361"},"modified":"2011-12-09T17:00:11","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T22:00:11","slug":"perry-bachmann-bow-out-only-santorum-and-newt-at-debate-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12361\/perry-bachmann-bow-out-only-santorum-and-newt-at-debate-with-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Perry, Bachmann Bow Out; Only Santorum and Newt at Debate with Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is not necessary, but oh so fitting that the week ends with news that GOP presidential candidates <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/12\/08\/rnc-chair-takes-issue-with-trump-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rick Perry<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cbn.com\/thebrodyfile\/archive\/2011\/12\/08\/michele-bachmann-says-no-to-trump-moderated-debate.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Michele Bachmann<\/a> will not be attending the December 27<sup>th<\/sup> debate \u201cmoderated\u201d by Donald Trump in Des Moines, IA.\u00a0 After a spirited exchange with Quin and Troy, I\u2019m glad to see my <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12285\/santorum-v-newt-thanks-to-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\">musings about a Lincoln-Douglas style debate between Gingrich and Santorum<\/a> taking a turn toward reality.\u00a0 With other candidates Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, and Jon Huntsman already declining \u2013 and Herman Cain out of the race \u2013 that leaves Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich as the only participants in what could be a decisive event one week before Iowa Republicans caucus to pick a presidential nominee.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the twists and turns in this wacky pre-primary season aren\u2019t done just yet.\u00a0 Next up: Santorum publicly challenging Newt to a one-on-one debate over the past, present, and future of America.\u00a0 Something tells me it&#8217;s the kind of challenge a &#8216;world historical figure&#8217; like Gingrich won&#8217;t pass up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not necessary, but oh so fitting that the week ends with news that GOP presidential candidates Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann will not be attending the December 27th debate \u201cmoderated\u201d by Donald Trump in Des Moines, IA.\u00a0 After a spirited exchange with Quin and Troy, I\u2019m glad to see my musings about a [&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":[2033,1193,1972,2391,2026,2725,2066,869,838,1084],"class_list":["post-12361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2033","tag-campaign","tag-debate","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-iowa","tag-michele-bachmann","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-rick-perry","tag-rick-santorum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12361","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=12361"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12369,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12361\/revisions\/12369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}