{"id":8791,"date":"2011-02-25T14:10:38","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T19:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8791"},"modified":"2011-02-25T14:11:35","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T19:11:35","slug":"media-announces-start-of-gop-2012-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8791\/media-announces-start-of-gop-2012-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Announces Start of GOP 2012 Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like emaciated jackals hungry for fresh meat MSNBC\u2019s political staff announced today that <a href=\"http:\/\/firstread.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2011\/02\/25\/6130398-first-thoughts-the-2012-gop-battle-begins\" target=\"_blank\">the GOP 2012 campaign is now underway<\/a>.\u00a0 The reason?\u00a0 Mike Huckabee (R-AR) made the rather unsurprising link between Massachusetts\u2019 individual mandate law passed under then-Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA) and the almost identical requirement in ObamaCare.\u00a0 Mitt\u2019s \u201cRomneyCare\u201d problem has been so well documented it\u2019s not worth a verifying hyperlink.<\/p>\n<p>That said, the fact that Huckabee\u2019s identifying of the main obstacle in Romney\u2019s path to the GOP nomination is being treated like a campaign salvo is too much; especially since neither man has formally announced a candidacy.\u00a0 At the earliest, it looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/news\/gingrich-says-decision-on-presidential-run-to-come-1279992.html\" target=\"_blank\">Newt Gingrich might be the first<\/a> to take the plunge sometime next month.\u00a0 For now, MSNBC\u2019s announcement is just the latest attempt to goad the pack of likely candidates into justifying a political reporter&#8217;s salary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like emaciated jackals hungry for fresh meat MSNBC\u2019s political staff announced today that the GOP 2012 campaign is now underway.\u00a0 The reason?\u00a0 Mike Huckabee (R-AR) made the rather unsurprising link between Massachusetts\u2019 individual mandate law passed under then-Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA) and the almost identical requirement in ObamaCare.\u00a0 Mitt\u2019s \u201cRomneyCare\u201d problem has been so well [&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":[914,1193,311,201,160,97,869,35,2442],"class_list":["post-8791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-campaign","tag-individual-mandate","tag-mike-huckabee","tag-mitt-romney","tag-msnbc","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-obamacare","tag-romneycare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8791","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=8791"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8795,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8791\/revisions\/8795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}