{"id":9890,"date":"2011-05-27T20:49:25","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T00:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9890"},"modified":"2011-06-01T10:05:14","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T14:05:14","slug":"second-round-of-gop-presidential-candidates-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9890\/second-round-of-gop-presidential-candidates-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Round of GOP Presidential Candidates Coming?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my column this week<\/a> and a discussion here on the Freedom Line blog with Tim<\/a>, we focused on the current state of the GOP presidential field, which has been defined in recent weeks by a series of high profile non-starters: Mike Huckabee<\/a>, Mitch Daniels<\/a>, Haley Barbour<\/a>, Donald Trump<\/a>, and John Thune<\/a>, amongst others. After Daniels — the most recent to take a pass — made his intentions public last weekend, conventional wisdom began to congeal around two intertwined propositions: that the GOP field was essentially set and that grassroots Republicans were dissatisfied with the field. Not so quick.<\/p>\n

Not only is the field not set in stone, it may be about to get a shot in the arm courtesy of three potentially top-tier candidates. Reports this week have Rudy Giuliani<\/a>, Sarah Palin<\/a>, and Rick Perry<\/a> all seriously eying a run. For those keeping score at home that’s one of the most successful Republican executives in the last half century, the most dynamic personality that the GOP has produced since Reagan, and the governor of a state that has been an economic powerhouse in the midst of a national downturn, respectively. Get ready for an interesting summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my column this week and a discussion here on the Freedom Line blog with Tim, we focused on the current state of the GOP presidential field, which has been defined in recent weeks by a series of high profile non-starters: Mike Huckabee, Mitch Daniels, Haley Barbour, Donald Trump, and John Thune, amongst others. After […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[914,2391,2631,2344,201,913,838,2243,365],"class_list":["post-9890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-donald-trump","tag-haley-barbour","tag-john-thune","tag-mike-huckabee","tag-mitch-daniels","tag-rick-perry","tag-rudy-giuliani","tag-sarah-palin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9890","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9890"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9900,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9890\/revisions\/9900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}