{"id":8658,"date":"2011-02-11T14:21:24","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T19:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8658"},"modified":"2011-02-11T14:23:09","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T19:23:09","slug":"gop-2012-hopefuls-shouldn%e2%80%99t-commit-a-false-start-by-announcing-too-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8658\/gop-2012-hopefuls-shouldn%e2%80%99t-commit-a-false-start-by-announcing-too-early\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP 2012 Hopefuls Shouldn\u2019t Commit a False Start By Announcing Too Early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies for the post-Super Bowl football metaphor, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/blogs\/morning-jay-fred-thompson-experience-daniels-and-thune_547323.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jay Cost\u2019s newest commentary<\/a> made me do it.\u00a0 Cost argues that \u201cThe Fred Thompson Experience\u201d proved that the right strategy for announcing a presidential candidacy is to wait until voters actually start tuning in to candidates.\u00a0 That doesn\u2019t happen 21 months before the election.\u00a0 By letting his rivals expend time and money placating the media\u2019s interest for months, Fred Thompson easily catapulted to the front of the line for one simple reason: he was new to the field.\u00a0 (His failure to capitalize was another matter.)<\/p>\n<p>For just about every serious GOP contender speaking at CPAC this weekend the temptation will be to ride the media wave into an early announced run for president.\u00a0 After reading Cost\u2019s analysis, perhaps they should wait until the House GOP and President Barack Obama have sparred this year to see which issues are the most relevant when voters start caring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies for the post-Super Bowl football metaphor, but Jay Cost\u2019s newest commentary made me do it.\u00a0 Cost argues that \u201cThe Fred Thompson Experience\u201d proved that the right strategy for announcing a presidential candidacy is to wait until voters actually start tuning in to candidates.\u00a0 That doesn\u2019t happen 21 months before the election.\u00a0 By letting his [&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":[914,143,1193,872,2394,676,1784],"class_list":["post-8658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-barack-obama","tag-campaign","tag-cpac","tag-fred-thompson","tag-jay-cost","tag-republican"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658","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=8658"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8661,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658\/revisions\/8661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}