{"id":13947,"date":"2012-04-25T18:15:13","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T22:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=13947"},"modified":"2012-04-25T18:15:13","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T22:15:13","slug":"jimmy-carter-likes-romney-after-favoring-huntsman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/13947\/jimmy-carter-likes-romney-after-favoring-huntsman\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Carter Likes Romney After Favoring Huntsman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just when he thought it was safe to grab hold of the GOP presidential mantle, Mitt Romney gets the worst kind of endorsement \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalwire.com\/archives\/2012\/04\/25\/carter_would_be_comfortable_with_romney.html#047619a\" target=\"_blank\">a thumbs-up from Jimmy Carter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Said Carter: &#8220;I&#8217;d rather have a Democrat but I would be comfortable &#8212; I think Romney has shown in the past, in his previous years as a moderate or progressive&#8230; that he was fairly competent as a governor and also running the Olympics as you know. He&#8217;s a good solid family man and so forth, he&#8217;s gone to the extreme right wing positions on some very important issues in order to get the nomination. What he&#8217;ll do in the general election, what he&#8217;ll do as president I think is different.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To be sure, Carter\u2019s statement about being \u201ccomfortable\u201d with Romney isn\u2019t as bad as the former Democratic president\u2019s labeling one-time Romney rival Jon Huntsman as <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9538\/carter-gives-huntsman-praise-kiss-of-death\/\" target=\"_blank\">an \u201cattractive\u201d candidate<\/a> and \u201cvery attractive to me personally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Carter\u2019s justification for being comfortable with Romney does reinforce the conventional wisdom that Romney\u2019s conservatism is a veneer whereas his \u201cmoderate or progressive\u201d past is the truer indicator of how he\u2019ll govern as president.<\/p>\n<p>To paraphrase Nancy Pelosi, maybe we\u2019ll have to elect Mitt to see how he\u2019ll govern.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: Political Wire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when he thought it was safe to grab hold of the GOP presidential mantle, Mitt Romney gets the worst kind of endorsement \u2013 a thumbs-up from Jimmy Carter. Said Carter: &#8220;I&#8217;d rather have a Democrat but I would be comfortable &#8212; I think Romney has shown in the past, in his previous years as [&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":[2033,1193,2026,140,2652,160],"class_list":["post-13947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2033","tag-campaign","tag-election","tag-jimmy-carter","tag-jon-huntsman","tag-mitt-romney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13947","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=13947"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13953,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13947\/revisions\/13953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}