{"id":15108,"date":"2015-12-10T18:28:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T01:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=15108"},"modified":"2015-12-10T18:40:25","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T01:40:25","slug":"breaking-down-the-republican-field-for-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2015\/12\/10\/breaking-down-the-republican-field-for-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"breaking down the Republican field for 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Explaining the strange confusion of how the 2008 Republican fight broke down after a slew of candidates strangely unacceptable to the Republican rank and file&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Moving from 2007 into the 2008, the Republican nomination fight slid into three factions: in the hawkish military conservative wing, John McCain beat out Rudy Giuliani, in the social conservative wing, Mike Huckabee beat out Sam Brownback, and in the &#8220;establishment politico&#8221; wing, Mitt Romney beat out Fred Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that we have in 2015 going into 2016 another three wings of the Republican party.\u00c2\u00a0 In the Celebrity\/Outsider wing, Donald Trump looks poised to beat out Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina, In the &#8220;Libertarian\/ Tea Party&#8221; wing Ted Cruz looks to be beating out Rand Paul, and in the Establishment Politico wing, Marco Rubio looks like he&#8217;s beating out Jeb Bush.<\/p>\n<p>The interesting thing about Ted Cruz is how Donald Trump has shifted about the Overton Window to let him in as &#8220;credible&#8221; as nominal Republican nominee possibility\u00c2\u00a0 &#8212; at least as a whole you can move down the right-wing scale of conservative causes and spot him somewhere, where with Trump his appeal seems to be from out of right-wing talk radio &#8212; Xenophobia, sure, but large amounts of bluster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explaining the strange confusion of how the 2008 Republican fight broke down after a slew of candidates strangely unacceptable to the Republican rank and file&#8230; Moving from 2007 into the 2008, the Republican nomination fight slid into three factions: in the hawkish military conservative wing, John McCain beat out Rudy Giuliani, in the social conservative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15110,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15108\/revisions\/15110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}