{"id":3755,"date":"2010-02-13T22:17:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T03:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3755"},"modified":"2010-02-13T22:17:50","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T03:17:50","slug":"republican-candidates-should-beg-to-be-co-opted-by-tea-partiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3755\/republican-candidates-should-beg-to-be-co-opted-by-tea-partiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Candidates Should Beg to be Co-opted by Tea Partiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>, blogger Glenn Reynolds makes <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703382904575059293624940362.html\" target=\"_blank\">an interesting observation about attendees<\/a> at the recent Tea Party Convention in Nashville.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Press attention focused on Sarah Palin&#8217;s speech, which was well-received by the crowd. But the attendees I met weren&#8217;t looking to her for direction. They were hoping she would move in theirs. Right now, the tea party isn&#8217;t looking for leaders so much as leaders are looking to align themselves with the tea party.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed.\u00a0 Republican leaders would do well this election cycle to figure out how to get GOP candidates co-opted into the Tea Party movement, not the other way round.\u00a0 Unlike many voters, tea partiers aren\u2019t looking for a candidate to sell them on an idea; they want a candidate who is going to implement the Tea Party creed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s Wall Street Journal, blogger Glenn Reynolds makes an interesting observation about attendees at the recent Tea Party Convention in Nashville. Press attention focused on Sarah Palin&#8217;s speech, which was well-received by the crowd. But the attendees I met weren&#8217;t looking to her for direction. They were hoping she would move in theirs. Right [&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":[615,28],"class_list":["post-3755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-gop","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755","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=3755"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3758,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755\/revisions\/3758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}