{"id":9504,"date":"2012-01-25T16:14:13","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T23:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=9504"},"modified":"2012-01-25T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T23:15:00","slug":"everyones-partisan-republicna-bonafide-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2012\/01\/25\/everyones-partisan-republicna-bonafide-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"everyone has their Republican bonafide problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a 30 second of clip on youtube of Newt Gingrich in a CSPAN interview saying that he was siding with &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hJQsLFhuyOY&amp;feature=player_embedded\">Rockefeller&#8221;<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 as the Rockefeller Chairman of the South &#8212; during the Rockefeller &#8212; Goldwater battles.\u00c2\u00a0 (A position that wouldn&#8217;t get you too far.)<\/p>\n<p>In his last debate he referenced being part of a Goldwater Organizing Session.<\/p>\n<p>The partisan and ideological problem for the Republicans with a Republican of Rockefellar antecedents pales next to Mitt Romney.\u00c2\u00a0 In his 1994 debates against Ted Kennedy, he claimed to have been an Independent during the Reagan administration, and a supporter of the presidential campaign of Paul Tsongas.\u00c2\u00a0 A curious attempt at pandering, considering Reagan did win Massachusetts twice, and disclaiming Reagan doesn&#8217;t get you any votes.<br \/>\nOf course, he had an about-face about various matters right when he threw away a chance at a second term and began running for the Republican nomination.\u00c2\u00a0 His story about his about face on abortion and stem cell research is especially hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Ron Paul has been tossing a photograph of him sitting happily next to Ronald Reagan, but as recently as 2008 was urging everyone to vote for either Ralph Nader, Cynthia Mckinney, Chuck Baldwin, or Bob\u00c2\u00a0 Barr.<\/p>\n<p>I guess that leaves you with Rick Santorum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a 30 second of clip on youtube of Newt Gingrich in a CSPAN interview saying that he was siding with &#8220;Rockefeller&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 as the Rockefeller Chairman of the South &#8212; during the Rockefeller &#8212; Goldwater battles.\u00c2\u00a0 (A position that wouldn&#8217;t get you too far.) In his last debate he referenced being part of a [&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-9504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9504","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=9504"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9507,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9504\/revisions\/9507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}