{"id":2559,"date":"2009-12-09T00:27:35","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T05:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2559"},"modified":"2009-12-09T10:07:27","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T15:07:27","slug":"will-palin-save-or-destroy-the-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2559\/will-palin-save-or-destroy-the-gop\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Palin Save or Destroy the GOP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s version of the Washington Post&#8217;s &#8220;The Fix&#8221; blog notes that Sarah Palin gave a radio interview over the weekend where she seemed to <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/thefix\/morning-fix\/morning-fix-26.html\" target=\"_blank\">leave the door open to a third party presidential run in 2012<\/a>. \u00a0This could potentially be politically disastrous for the GOP come Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>Under present circumstances, Palin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/elections2\/election_2012\/gop_2012_huckabee_29_romney_24_palin_18\" target=\"_blank\">probably doesn&#8217;t have a strong enough coalition to take the GOP nomination<\/a>. What she does have, however, is an intensity of support that would likely lead many of her supporters to follow her out of the Republican Party&#8217;s presidential fold. \u00a0Given <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2532\/creating-a-party-of-freedom\/\" target=\"_blank\">the schismatic tendencies that the Tea Party movement has begun to show<\/a>, Palin could also potentially have a much more organized, coherent base than most independent candidates.<\/p>\n<p>This prospect is just one more impetus for a Republican coalescence before the next presidential race. \u00a0From <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_presidential_election,_1912\" target=\"_blank\">Theodore Roosevelt<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_presidential_election,_1992\" target=\"_blank\">Ross Perot<\/a>, the legacy of strong third-party candidates has tended to be creating murder-suicide pacts with the candidate that they&#8217;re ideologically closer to.\u00a0 If Sarah Palin bolts the GOP in 2012, she may end up spending two election cycles in a row being blamed for Barack Obama&#8217;s presidency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s version of the Washington Post&#8217;s &#8220;The Fix&#8221; blog notes that Sarah Palin gave a radio interview over the weekend where she seemed to leave the door open to a third party presidential run in 2012. \u00a0This could potentially be politically disastrous for the GOP come Election Day. Under present circumstances, Palin probably doesn&#8217;t have [&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":[615,334,617,365,614,616],"class_list":["post-2559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-gop","tag-republican-party","tag-ross-perot","tag-sarah-palin","tag-tea-party-movement","tag-theodore-roosevelt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559","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=2559"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2564,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions\/2564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}