{"id":12918,"date":"2012-02-05T19:17:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T00:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=12918"},"modified":"2012-02-06T09:45:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T14:45:08","slug":"santorum-has-a-real-chance-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12918\/santorum-has-a-real-chance-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Santorum Has a Real Chance Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As The Weekly Standard<a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/blogs\/polls-santorum-first-place-minnesota-second-colorado_620991.html\" target=\"_blank\"> reports<\/a>, polls now show Rick Santorum has a chance to do very well indeed in three different contest on Tuesday. If he does, it should become a two-man race between him and Romney. If he doesn&#8217;t, Romney is home free, I believe.<br \/>\nBut there&#8217;s the deal: Rasmussen now has Santorum as the only Republican running who beats Obama head to head. It just goes to show that, over time, Santorum wears well with voters.<\/p>\n<p>The question is, why have so many conservative leaders been so unwilling to rally around him? Why haven&#8217;t more of them <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/1282-puff-the-tragic-dragonless-leadership\" target=\"_blank\">endorsed him<\/a>? (That said, in the past week some brave souls have started what Santorum must hope will turn into a stampede: Michelle Malkin, Tom Tancredo, Jane Norton, Bob Schaffer, David Limbaugh, Phyllis Schafly, Pat Boone.)<\/p>\n<p>If they don&#8217;t like Romney, and they get stuck with him, they have only themselves to blame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As The Weekly Standard reports, polls now show Rick Santorum has a chance to do very well indeed in three different contest on Tuesday. If he does, it should become a two-man race between him and Romney. If he doesn&#8217;t, Romney is home free, I believe. But there&#8217;s the deal: Rasmussen now has Santorum as [&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":[3328,2795,3327],"class_list":["post-12918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-malkin","tag-santorum","tag-schlafly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12918","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=12918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12920,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12918\/revisions\/12920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}