{"id":39333,"date":"2012-01-01T12:17:07","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T20:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=39333"},"modified":"2012-01-01T12:18:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T20:18:21","slug":"im-now-rooting-for-rick-santorum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=39333","title":{"rendered":"I’m Now Rooting For Rick Santorum"},"content":{"rendered":"

I won’t be depressed if Mitt Romney is the Republican nominee. I much prefer him to John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential candidate.<\/p>\n

Over the past eight months, I’ve swung from rooting for Michelle Bachmann to Rick Perry to Herman Cain to Newt Gingrich and now I’m rooting for Rick Santorum to become the conservative alternative to Romney.<\/p>\n

Dennis Prager has said on his radio show that Santorum is the candidate who most mirrors his own views.<\/p>\n

I think Santorum could unite all three factions of the conservative movement — economic, social, and strong military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I won’t be depressed if Mitt Romney is the Republican nominee. I much prefer him to John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential candidate. Over the past eight months, I’ve swung from rooting for Michelle Bachmann to Rick Perry to Herman … Continue reading →<\/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":[4,24],"tags":[29761,27464,27778,23795,25491],"class_list":["post-39333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager","category-politics","tag-dennis-prager","tag-michelle-bachmann","tag-mitt-romney","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-rick-santorum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39333","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=39333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}