{"id":25884,"date":"2012-01-27T12:30:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T18:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=25884"},"modified":"2012-01-27T09:34:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T15:34:25","slug":"announcing-eventual-romney-supporters-for-paul-and-santorum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=25884","title":{"rendered":"Announcing &#8220;Eventual Romney Supporters For Santorum Or Paul&#8221;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since everyone else is launching pressure groups and PACs, I figure it&#8217;s high time I did the same.<\/p>\n<p>Just in time for the Minnesota Caucuses, I&#8217;m announcing my new PAC, &#8220;Eventual Romney Supporters For Santorum Or Paul&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>To be a member of (or contributor to) ERSFSOP, you need to do the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recognize the true goal for conservatives in the general election &#8211; to replace Barack Obama with someone who will shrink government and get it out of the way of economic recovery.<\/li>\n<li>Recognize, in addition, that most important facet of the endorsement process; pulling like mad for candidates that reflect your values, and do so with a voice so loud and powerful that whomever wins the nomination needs to pay attention, even if it&#8217;s not yours.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And so the\u00a0ERSFSOP charter basically says this:<\/p>\n<p><em>I, a conservative base voter, recognize the primary need to to get Barack Obama out of office in favor of virtually <\/em>any <em>conservative-enough Republican, and recognize that Romney is probably still on the inside track to the nomination. \u00a0I also am uncomfortable with the depth of Romney&#8217;s commitment to conservative economic princpiples. \u00a0And so until Candidate Romney makes his commitment to conservative economic policy &#8211; especially repeal of Obamacare and drastic cuts to spending and the size of government &#8211; an integral part of his campaign, I will be caucusing for Santorum, or Ron Paul, or even plugging my nose and caucusing for the born-again Alinky-ite, Gingrich. \u00a0And so until you commit to the policies we support, your path to the nomination has a speed bump. \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Your choice, Governor Romney; a 55 gallon drum of Maalox, or a clear path to the convention.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Your move.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Any takers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since everyone else is launching pressure groups and PACs, I figure it&#8217;s high time I did the same. Just in time for the Minnesota Caucuses, I&#8217;m announcing my new PAC, &#8220;Eventual Romney Supporters For Santorum Or Paul&#8221;. To be a member of (or contributor to) ERSFSOP, you need to do the following: Recognize the true [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,16,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-conservatism","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25884"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25887,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25884\/revisions\/25887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}