{"id":9891,"date":"2011-05-27T17:30:02","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T21:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9891"},"modified":"2011-05-27T17:30:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T21:30:02","slug":"romney-supports-ethanol-subsidies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9891\/romney-supports-ethanol-subsidies\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney Supports Ethanol Subsidies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or, to use Romney\u2019s phrasing, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2011\/05\/27\/romney_in_iowa_i_support_the_subsidy_of_ethanol_110011.html\" target=\"_blank\">I support the subsidy of ethanol<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 Forget the passive voice; Mitt Romney is actively standing on his principles!<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, the former Massachusetts governor has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/05\/12\/mitt-romney-rejects-deman_n_861230.html\" target=\"_blank\">defended his version of an individual mandate<\/a> in health care.\u00a0 Now, he\u2019s declaring fealty to a $5 billion program to create a source of energy the free market will not support.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, Romney was tagged as being inauthentic because he tried to remake himself into a social conservative when he\u2019s really more a country club Republican.\u00a0 With his background in big business, Romney\u2019s 2012 dalliances with corporate welfare may be more authentic, but they risk being out-of-step with free market tea partiers.<\/p>\n<p>Mitt Romney seems like a genuinely nice, earnest guy.\u00a0 Too bad he\u2019s just not a conservative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or, to use Romney\u2019s phrasing, \u201cI support the subsidy of ethanol.\u201d\u00a0 Forget the passive voice; Mitt Romney is actively standing on his principles! Two weeks ago, the former Massachusetts governor has defended his version of an individual mandate in health care.\u00a0 Now, he\u2019s declaring fealty to a $5 billion program to create a source of [&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":[914,2248,12,311,2725,160,2249],"class_list":["post-9891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-ethanol","tag-health-care","tag-individual-mandate","tag-iowa","tag-mitt-romney","tag-subsidy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9891","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=9891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9893,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9891\/revisions\/9893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}