{"id":4115,"date":"2010-03-06T14:24:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T19:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4115"},"modified":"2010-03-06T14:24:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T19:24:51","slug":"pale-pastels-david-cameron-and-nicholas-sarkozy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4115\/pale-pastels-david-cameron-and-nicholas-sarkozy\/","title":{"rendered":"Pale Pastels: David Cameron and Nicholas Sarkozy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Presumptive British Tory Prime Minister, David Cameron and French \u201cconservative\u201d President Nicholas Sarkozy are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/politics\/david-cameron\/7372701\/David-Cameron-plans-to-meet-Nicholas-Sarkozy.html \" target=\"_blank\">scheduled to meet<\/a> when the latter comes to London.\u00a0 Both are cut from the John McCain (R-AZ) \u201cprogressive\u201d cloth when it comes to climate change, taxes, and civil liberties.\u00a0 If the GOP wants to make good on its promising electoral campaigns this year, it should steer clear of Cameron and Sarkozy versions of conservatives and go for the real thing: substantive limits on spending and taxing, coupled with the comprehensive deregulation of government&#8217;s intrusion into civil society.\u00a0 Like Ronald Reagan once said, we need bold colors, not pale pastels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presumptive British Tory Prime Minister, David Cameron and French \u201cconservative\u201d President Nicholas Sarkozy are scheduled to meet when the latter comes to London.\u00a0 Both are cut from the John McCain (R-AZ) \u201cprogressive\u201d cloth when it comes to climate change, taxes, and civil liberties.\u00a0 If the GOP wants to make good on its promising electoral campaigns [&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":[928,926,721,927,334],"class_list":["post-4115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-conservative","tag-david-cameron","tag-john-mccain","tag-nicholas-sarkozy","tag-republican-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115","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=4115"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4118,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions\/4118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}