{"id":12941,"date":"2012-02-07T17:21:09","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T22:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=12941"},"modified":"2012-02-08T09:27:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T14:27:49","slug":"the-new-debate-in-the-republican-party-needs-to-be-between-conservatives-and-libertarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12941\/the-new-debate-in-the-republican-party-needs-to-be-between-conservatives-and-libertarians\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The New Debate in the Republican Party Needs to be Between Conservatives and Libertarians&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So says South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint in a wonderful new interview with Reason TV. And on that point he&#8217;s precisely right. While the farthest reaches of Ron Paul&#8217;s political philosophy (an isolationist foreign policy, drug legalization, etc.) are both ideologically imprudent and political non-starters, the Texas congressman has ignited an important discussion that has the potential to bring the GOP back to its first principles of limited government.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Paul, however, DeMint is not content to be a legislative voice in the wilderness. His work with the <a href=\"http:\/\/senateconservatives.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Conservatives Fund<\/a> has been essential in bringing Tea Party principles to Congress&#8217;s upper chamber. Have a look at the video and be thankful that we still have a few more years of service forthcoming from this principled conservative leader.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/89kx4hBrBrE&amp;feature\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/89kx4hBrBrE&amp;feature\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So says South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint in a wonderful new interview with Reason TV. And on that point he&#8217;s precisely right. While the farthest reaches of Ron Paul&#8217;s political philosophy (an isolationist foreign policy, drug legalization, etc.) are both ideologically imprudent and political non-starters, the Texas congressman has ignited an important discussion that has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1679,271,606,225,218,3334,28],"class_list":["post-12941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-conservatism","tag-jim-demint","tag-libertarianism","tag-reason","tag-ron-paul","tag-senate-conservatives-fund","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12941","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12941"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12946,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12941\/revisions\/12946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}