{"id":9852,"date":"2011-05-26T17:03:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T21:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9852"},"modified":"2011-05-26T17:03:11","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T21:03:11","slug":"jeb-bush-for-2012-vp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9852\/jeb-bush-for-2012-vp\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeb Bush for 2012 VP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writing for <em>The Atlantic<\/em>, veteran Florida political reporter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2011\/05\/why-jeb-bush-wont-run-for-president-in-2012\/239464\/\" target=\"_blank\">S.V. Date<\/a> says don\u2019t rule out former Governor Jeb Bush (R-FL) as the go-to vice presidential pick for whomever wins the 2012 GOP presidential nomination.\u00a0 With the son and brother of former presidents wary of topping a ticket so close to the last Bush era, Date speculates that Bush would probably say yes to second billing because of how it would position him as an eventual frontrunner.<\/p>\n<p>Unsaid in Date\u2019s blog but equally true is the huge amount of reassurance putting Jeb on the ticket would create.\u00a0 So far, the Republican field is filled with candidates who lack the other Bush\u2019s combination of executive experience, Hispanic ties and intimacy with presidential politics.\u00a0 The only problem with putting Bush on the ticket might be getting overshadowed.\u00a0 But if it increases the chances of winning, it\u2019s a chance any nominee should be willing to take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing for The Atlantic, veteran Florida political reporter S.V. Date says don\u2019t rule out former Governor Jeb Bush (R-FL) as the go-to vice presidential pick for whomever wins the 2012 GOP presidential nomination.\u00a0 With the son and brother of former presidents wary of topping a ticket so close to the last Bush era, Date speculates [&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":[914,354,2728,2729],"class_list":["post-9852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-florida","tag-jeb-bush","tag-vice-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9852","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=9852"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9855,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9852\/revisions\/9855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}