{"id":350,"date":"2007-06-13T23:09:47","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T05:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=350"},"modified":"2007-12-09T07:24:28","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T14:12:28","slug":"hugh-hewitt-addresses-wednesday-morning-club-about-2008-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=350","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Hewitt Addresses Wednesday Morning Club About 2008 Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEVERLY HILLS: Radio talkshow host and author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hughhewitt.com\">Hugh Hewitt<\/a> told 120 people at the Four Seasons Hotel that a Mitt Romney &#8211; Rudy Giuliani would be a strong Republican ticket and he didn&#8217;t care much which person would be nominated for president.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/Images\/photos3\/hughhewitt.wav\">Click here to listen.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click here for more information about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cspc.org\/AboutWMC.html\">Wednesday Morning Club<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By a show of hands, 60% of the crowd supported Giuliani for president and 30% supported Romney. John McCain had no support. Hewitt said McCain had no support among Republicans generally.<\/p>\n<p>Hugh said that Giuliani and Romney were both &quot;coiled energy.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2007\/06\/12\/nmedia212.xml\">Hugh praised Tony Blair&#8217;s June 12 speech on the media.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;The more people know about Romney, the more they resent attacks on his [Mormon] faith.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Nobody in the crowd has a poor impression of Fred Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#8217;s about being &#8216;Not Bush&#8217; in 2008.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The race for the Republican presidential nomination will be over by Feb. 2, Hewitt predicted.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Newt Gingrich has a written and verbal record that precludes a serious run for president of the United States.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We&#8217;ve reached [in 2004] the highwater mark for Republicans. I don&#8217;t know where we&#8217;ll find more Republicans.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>At the lunch, I sat next to <a href=\"http:\/\/gopvixen.blogs.com\/gop_vixen\/2007\/06\/hewitt_at_the_w.html\">Los Angeles Daily News columnist Bridget Johnson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hewitt&#8217;s latest book is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_ss_gw\/104-0647659-9393504?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;field-keywords=A+Mormon+in+the+White+House%3F%3A+10+Things+Every+American+Should+Know+about+Mitt+Romney&amp;Go.x=0&amp;Go.y=0&amp;Go=Go\">A Mormon in the White House?: 10 Things Every American Should Know about Mitt Romney<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEVERLY HILLS: Radio talkshow host and author Hugh Hewitt told 120 people at the Four Seasons Hotel that a Mitt Romney &#8211; Rudy Giuliani would be a strong Republican ticket and he didn&#8217;t care much which person would be nominated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=350\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hugh-hewitt","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}