{"id":3884,"date":"2010-02-19T18:52:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T23:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3884"},"modified":"2010-02-19T19:10:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T00:10:35","slug":"game-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3884\/game-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Game On!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-28541-Kissimmee-Conservative-Examiner~y2010m2d1-Marco-Rubio-leads-Charlie-Crist-in-the-latest-Rasmussen-poll\" target=\"_blank\">a growing lead in the polls <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/blogs.miaminewtimes.com\/riptide\/2010\/02\/marco_rubio_greeted_with_cheer.php\" target=\"_blank\">a rousing speech at CPAC <\/a>now under his belt, former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio&#8217;s candidacy for the U.S. Senate is looking better by the day. And the surging would-be senator proved yesterday that he won&#8217;t shy away from taking the fight to his more liberal primary opponent, Florida Governor Charlie Crist. Consider this jab that did everything but cite Crist by name:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>2010 will not be just a choice between Republicans or Democrats. It will not just be a simple choice between liberals and conservatives. It will be a referendum on our nation&#8217;s very identity.<\/p>\n<p>People want leaders that will come here to Washington D.C. and stand up to this big government agenda, not be co-opted by it. The Senate already has one Arlen Specter too many. And America already has a Democrat party. It doesn&#8217;t need another Democrat party.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the wake of that speech, Crist <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0210\/33195.html\" target=\"_blank\">has now agreed <\/a>to a nationally-televised debate with Rubio\u00a0 on Fox News Sunday. That a primary contest is generating this kind of attention shows how important this race is going to be nationally &#8230; and how bright Marco Rubio&#8217;s future may turn out to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a growing lead in the polls and a rousing speech at CPAC now under his belt, former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio&#8217;s candidacy for the U.S. Senate is looking better by the day. And the surging would-be senator proved yesterday that he won&#8217;t shy away from taking the fight to his more liberal primary [&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":[353,872,878,352],"class_list":["post-3884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-charlie-crist","tag-cpac","tag-florida-senate-race","tag-marco-rubio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884","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=3884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3886,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884\/revisions\/3886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}