{"id":1825,"date":"2009-11-04T17:17:24","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T22:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2009-11-04T17:17:24","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T22:17:24","slug":"conservatives-flying-south-for-the-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1825\/conservatives-flying-south-for-the-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives Flying South for the Winter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like retired seniors aren\u2019t the only New York-area residents making an impact in Florida this time of year.  After upstate New Yorkers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/11\/03\/AR2009110304357.html?hpid=topnews\" target=\"_blank\">nearly pushed Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman over the finish line<\/a> last night, Republican leaders are taking note.  One <em>Miami New Times<\/em> blogger suggests that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marcorubio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">conservative insurgent Marco Rubio<\/a> may have a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.miaminewtimes.com\/riptide\/2009\/11\/what_the_conservative_defeat_i.php\" target=\"_blank\">new hurdle to overcome<\/a> in his quest for establishment credibility and access to GOP moneymen.  The argument goes that party big-wigs are likely to be even stingier with their support after watching a red district go blue.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, ABC News\u2019 Rick Klein reports that the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/thenote\/2009\/11\/cornyn-we-will-not-spend-money-in-a-contested-primary.html\" target=\"_blank\">will not be giving money to any candidate in an open, contested primary<\/a>.  Sorry, Charlie (Crist)!  NRSC Chairman John Cornyn (R-TX) notes that in the aftermath of NY-23, \u201c[t]here\u2019s no incentive for us to weigh in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is huge.  Now there\u2019s every incentive for the conservative grassroots to promote and resource Marco Rubio\u2019s campaign, without the fear of being outspent and undercut by the national party.  The big guys are saying \u2018may the best man win\u2019 in the Florida GOP primary.  Game on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like retired seniors aren\u2019t the only New York-area residents making an impact in Florida this time of year. After upstate New Yorkers nearly pushed Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman over the finish line last night, Republican leaders are taking note. One Miami New Times blogger suggests that conservative insurgent Marco Rubio may have [&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":[436,353,367,354,435,352,437,438,417],"class_list":["post-1825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-abc-news","tag-charlie-crist","tag-doug-hoffman","tag-florida","tag-john-cornyn","tag-marco-rubio","tag-miami-new-times","tag-national-republican-senatorial-committee","tag-ny-23"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825","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=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1831,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions\/1831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}