{"id":4940,"date":"2010-04-23T02:26:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T06:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4940"},"modified":"2010-04-23T02:26:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T06:26:22","slug":"perpetually-campaigning-yourself-out-of-a-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4940\/perpetually-campaigning-yourself-out-of-a-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Perpetually Campaigning Yourself Out of a Career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard to believe that Florida Governor Charlie Crist is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Politics\/2010\/0420\/The-Charlie-Crist-conundrum-lots-of-choices-none-of-them-good \" target=\"_blank\">on the precipice of being a one term chief executive<\/a> with only a new wife to show for it.\u00a0 Haled as the difference maker for John McCain\u2019s struggling presidential campaign, he single-handedly decided which Republican candidate would win the 2008 GOP Florida primary.\u00a0 Yes, he was that popular in a state where he now trails his Republican challenger for the open Senate seat, Marco Rubio, by 20 points.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from doing little more in office than unwind many of Jeb Bush\u2019s conservative accomplishments, Crist is likely to leave office in November without having ever fully concentrated on being the most powerful politician in a crucial swing state.\u00a0 In stark contrast to New Jersey\u2019s recently elected governor, Chris Christie, whose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2010\/04\/22\/the_thunder_roars_in_trenton_105267.html \" target=\"_blank\">budget balancing is a model for skillful public policy in action<\/a>, Crist will be remembered as a politician who couldn\u2019t be satisfied with his current job.\u00a0 Very soon, Florida voters will relieve him of the burden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard to believe that Florida Governor Charlie Crist is on the precipice of being a one term chief executive with only a new wife to show for it.\u00a0 Haled as the difference maker for John McCain\u2019s struggling presidential campaign, he single-handedly decided which Republican candidate would win the 2008 GOP Florida primary.\u00a0 Yes, he [&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":[353,1034,354,1060,352,410],"class_list":["post-4940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-charlie-crist","tag-chris-christie","tag-florida","tag-governor","tag-marco-rubio","tag-new-jersey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4940","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=4940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4942,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4940\/revisions\/4942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}