{"id":2690,"date":"2009-12-16T14:43:19","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T19:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2690"},"modified":"2009-12-16T14:55:56","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T19:55:56","slug":"rubio-williams-could-make-red-states-scarlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2690\/rubio-williams-could-make-red-states-scarlet\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio, Williams Could Make Red States Scarlet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though there isn\u2019t much hope of Republicans winning a majority in the U.S. Senate after the 2010 election, President Obama may have a few new conservative voices critiquing his administration. <a href=\"http:\/\/senateconservatives.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Of the four Republican candidates endorsed by the Senatorial Conservative Fund<\/a>, the two most likely to get elected are running to replace moderate members of the GOP. But while replacing Kay Bailey Hutchison with Michael Williams would be an improvement for Texas conservatives looking for a more aggressive advocate, that scenario pales in comparison to the starkly different paths confronting Florida\u2019s Republican primary voters.<\/p>\n<p>In that race former Florida house speaker and Tea Party darling <a href=\"http:\/\/cbs4.com\/national\/crist.rubio.senate.2.1373219.html\" target=\"_blank\">Marco Rubio just pulled even with Charlie Crist<\/a>, the current Republican governor and a closet liberal. <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1825\/conservatives-flying-south-for-the-winter\/\">CFIF has previously covered the National Republican Senatorial Committee\u2019s decision not to endorse<\/a> in contested primaries. Now, it looks like that decision, coupled with Rubio\u2019s successful linkage of Crist to Obama, is hurting the once front-running Crist. After Doug Hoffman\u2019s narrow loss in the New York 23rd congressional special election, many pundits opined that conservatives like Rubio would be <em>persona non grata<\/em> in the GOP. Like everything else coming out of Washington these days, the \u201cexperts\u201d were wrong about what Americans want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though there isn\u2019t much hope of Republicans winning a majority in the U.S. Senate after the 2010 election, President Obama may have a few new conservative voices critiquing his administration. Of the four Republican candidates endorsed by the Senatorial Conservative Fund, the two most likely to get elected are running to replace moderate members [&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":[143,353,367,649,352,648,417,28],"class_list":["post-2690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-charlie-crist","tag-doug-hoffman","tag-kay-bailey-hutchison","tag-marco-rubio","tag-michael-williams","tag-ny-23","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690","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=2690"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2697,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690\/revisions\/2697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}