{"id":4656,"date":"2010-04-08T13:30:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T18:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4656"},"modified":"2010-04-08T13:30:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T18:30:15","slug":"the-persistence-of-pat-toomey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4656\/the-persistence-of-pat-toomey\/","title":{"rendered":"The Persistence of Pat Toomey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six years ago, then Rep. Pat Toomey (R-PA) angered the GOP establishment by running against incumbent Republican Senator Arlen Specter in the primary.\u00a0 Toomey lost, in no small part to conservative GOP Senator Rick Santorum\u2019s support for the very liberal Specter.\u00a0 Since then, Specter won and switched parties, Santorum was defeated by Democrat Bob Casey, Jr., and Toomey ran the Club for Growth.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Toomey is the odds-on favorite to be the Republican nominee to knock off Specter in this year\u2019s general election while Santorum nurses plans for a presidential run in 2012.\u00a0 With <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/onpolitics\/post\/2010\/04\/toomey-pulls-ahead-in-pennsylvania-senate-race-\/1 \" target=\"_blank\">Toomey outpolling Specter<\/a> and Santorum counting on conservatives like Toomey to make him electorally viable, it\u2019s nice to see a limited government politician winding up in the driver\u2019s seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six years ago, then Rep. Pat Toomey (R-PA) angered the GOP establishment by running against incumbent Republican Senator Arlen Specter in the primary.\u00a0 Toomey lost, in no small part to conservative GOP Senator Rick Santorum\u2019s support for the very liberal Specter.\u00a0 Since then, Specter won and switched parties, Santorum was defeated by Democrat Bob Casey, [&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":[30,31,1085,1084],"class_list":["post-4656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-arlen-specter","tag-pat-toomey","tag-pennsylvania","tag-rick-santorum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656","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=4656"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4659,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656\/revisions\/4659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}