{"id":18166,"date":"2013-06-13T12:16:51","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T16:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=18166"},"modified":"2013-06-13T12:16:51","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T16:16:51","slug":"vp-biden-endorses-sens-cruz-and-paul-as-true-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/18166\/vp-biden-endorses-sens-cruz-and-paul-as-true-conservatives\/","title":{"rendered":"VP Biden Endorses Sens. Cruz and Paul as True Conservatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If U.S. Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rand Paul (R-KY) ever need <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/biden-the-last-thing-we-need-is-another-ted-cruz-or-rand-paul-in-the-senate\/article\/2531684\" target=\"_blank\">a Democratic endorsement of their conservative bona fides<\/a>, they couldn\u2019t do better than Vice President Joe Biden\u2019s comment the other day at a Massachusetts fundraiser.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking off-the-cuff, Biden told the audience that \u201cthe last thing in the world we need now is someone who will go down to the United States Senate and support Ted Cruz, support the new senator from Kentucky,\u201d meaning Rand Paul.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the Senators were the two most cited reasons given when Biden pressed Republicans in the chamber to support his and President Barack Obama\u2019s push for stricter gun control laws.<\/p>\n<p>Biden was surprised. \u201cI actually said, \u2018Are you kidding?\u2019 These are two freshmen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Better yet, call them \u2018reformers with results.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>One of the disappointments for many conservatives is to watch a Republican politician talk a good game, but then get co-opted into shirking principles in deference to the process and the allure of power in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>If Cruz and Paul have been able to stiffen the spines of their Republican colleagues, then it sounds like the GOP caucus is getting more conservative as a result of their presence.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s quite a feat for two freshmen.<\/p>\n<p>Just ask Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/biden-the-last-thing-we-need-is-another-ted-cruz-or-rand-paul-in-the-senate\/article\/2531684\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Examiner<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If U.S. Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rand Paul (R-KY) ever need a Democratic endorsement of their conservative bona fides, they couldn\u2019t do better than Vice President Joe Biden\u2019s comment the other day at a Massachusetts fundraiser. Speaking off-the-cuff, Biden told the audience that \u201cthe last thing in the world we need now is someone [&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":[928,101,669,1447,2890,178],"class_list":["post-18166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-conservative","tag-joe-biden","tag-rand-paul","tag-reform","tag-ted-cruz","tag-u-s-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18166","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=18166"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18169,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18166\/revisions\/18169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}