{"id":37107,"date":"2011-09-27T15:30:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T23:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=37107"},"modified":"2011-09-27T15:30:50","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T23:30:50","slug":"could-chris-christie-win-the-republican-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=37107","title":{"rendered":"Could Chris Christie Win The Republican Nomination?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like most Republicans, I am not thrilled with our choices for president.<\/p>\n<p>Rick Perry is the most right-wing but he&#8217;s a lousy debater.<\/p>\n<p>I hope Chris Christie gets in, even though many of his positions are not conservative, as <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-fix\/post\/chris-christie-has-many-of-the-same-liabilities-as-perry-romney\/2011\/09\/27\/gIQA7ZzA2K_blog.html?hpid=z2\">the Washington Post reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Whatever Christie\u2019s conservative apostasies, you can\u2019t argue that he does check one big box for Republicans right now \u2013 fiscal conservatism.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s also become clear that many of the attacks in the presidential race so far could find a welcome target in Christie. His ability to parry them and still win over some very finnicky conservative voters remains a very big question, no matter his debate savvy.<\/p>\n<p>And given the status with which he would enter the race, it would certainly be a barrage from day one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like most Republicans, I am not thrilled with our choices for president. Rick Perry is the most right-wing but he&#8217;s a lousy debater. I hope Chris Christie gets in, even though many of his positions are not conservative, as the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=37107\">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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[27921,20438,27920,27465,27515,27919],"class_list":["post-37107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-conservative-voters","tag-debater","tag-fiscal-conservatism","tag-republican-nomination","tag-rick-perry","tag-welcome-target"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37107","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=37107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37108,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37107\/revisions\/37108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}