{"id":15254,"date":"2012-07-27T13:40:10","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T17:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15254"},"modified":"2012-07-27T13:40:10","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T17:40:10","slug":"virginia%e2%80%99s-bob-mcdonnell-as-romneys-vp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15254\/virginia%e2%80%99s-bob-mcdonnell-as-romneys-vp\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia\u2019s Bob McDonnell as Romney&#8217;s VP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2012\/jul\/26\/mcdonnell-appears-on-vp-shortlist\/?page=all#pagebreak\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Times<\/a> quotes some GOP operatives as saying the culturally conservative Virginia governor could provide the link to the conservative base Romney needs while not upstaging the presidential candidate on the stump (an apparent consideration given the rhetorical abilities of other possibilities Chris Christie and Marco Rubio).<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know much about McDonnell\u2019s tenure as governor or his political chops, and the Times article may just be a puff piece doing McDonnell a favor by keeping his name in the mix and on Drudge Report where I first saw the article.<\/p>\n<p>But since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2012\/jul\/26\/mcdonnell-appears-on-vp-shortlist\/?page=all#pagebreak\" target=\"_blank\">Quin has weighed in<\/a> on McDonnell as a possible vice presidential candidate \u2013 sort of \u2013 I wonder what he thinks about the potential for a Romney-McDonnell ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Quin, thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times quotes some GOP operatives as saying the culturally conservative Virginia governor could provide the link to the conservative base Romney needs while not upstaging the presidential candidate on the stump (an apparent consideration given the rhetorical abilities of other possibilities Chris Christie and Marco Rubio). I don\u2019t know much about McDonnell\u2019s tenure [&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":[2033,3721,2749,160,2729,704],"class_list":["post-15254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2033","tag-bob-mcdonnell","tag-hillyer","tag-mitt-romney","tag-vice-president","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15254","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=15254"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15258,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15254\/revisions\/15258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}