{"id":5499,"date":"2010-05-29T11:28:27","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T15:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5499"},"modified":"2010-05-29T11:28:27","modified_gmt":"2010-05-29T15:28:27","slug":"bubba-backs-blanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5499\/bubba-backs-blanche\/","title":{"rendered":"Bubba Backs Blanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh off revelations over his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Commentary\/Opinion\/2010\/0528\/Sestak-Clinton-and-Obama-Was-it-a-bribe\" target=\"_blank\">involvement in Sestak-gate<\/a>, former president Bill Clinton pounded the podium yesterday in support of a fellow member of the Democratic Party\u2019s endangered species: moderates.\u00a0 Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) is facing a tough run-off against the sitting Lt. Governor who is allied with a vast leftwing conspiracy to make an example out of the on again, off again liberal.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0510\/37936.html#ixzz0pKdtVy1Y\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Clinton doesn\u2019t like it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Playing on both local pride and a wariness of outside influence, he suggested voters would be mere pawns for an agenda of party purification if they opposed Lincoln.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you want to be used that way, have at it,\u2019 he said to about 200 Democrats at Philander Smith College, speaking without notes for 20 minutes<\/p>\n<p>With a detailed recitation of Lincoln\u2019s work on behalf of Arkansas down to the jobs she saved at a manufacturer in Ft. Smith, Clinton exhorted voters to not direct their discontent at her.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good luck with that.\u00a0 Of all the endangered political species this election cycle, none seems as likely for a population reduction than \u201cmoderate\u201d Democrats.\u00a0 Liberals, like conservatives, like politicians who take a consistent ideological stand for issues.\u00a0 Too often being a \u201cmoderate\u201d is just code for policymaking as situational ethics.\u00a0 If Clinton fails to push Lincoln over the 50% mark, he\u2019ll be on the hook for letting down yet another female senator seeking federal office (his wife Hillary being the other).\u00a0 With Obama 0-for-3 in hotly contested races, that means Democrats running for reelection in 2010 will have to look to someone other than the two most recent Democratic presidents to gin up enough support to get a win on Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>Is Jimmy Carter available?<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: Politico<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh off revelations over his involvement in Sestak-gate, former president Bill Clinton pounded the podium yesterday in support of a fellow member of the Democratic Party\u2019s endangered species: moderates.\u00a0 Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) is facing a tough run-off against the sitting Lt. Governor who is allied with a vast leftwing conspiracy to make an example [&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":[782,738,143,501,737,118,1308],"class_list":["post-5499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2010-midterm-elections","tag-arkansas","tag-barack-obama","tag-bill-clinton","tag-blanche-lincoln","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-joe-sestak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5499","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=5499"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5502,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5499\/revisions\/5502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}