{"id":3019,"date":"2007-10-10T08:52:19","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T14:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3019"},"modified":"2007-10-10T08:52:19","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T14:52:19","slug":"re-third-party-candidates-for-conservatives-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/re-third-party-candidates-for-conservatives-4\/","title":{"rendered":"re: Third party candidates for conservatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s more from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasblog.com\/200710091000629\/tara-ross\/a-shot-in-the-foot.html\">Dallasblog<\/a> on Dobson&#8217;s threat last week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasblog.com\/200710091000629\/tara-ross\/a-shot-in-the-foot.html\">Tara Ross<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Late last week, evangelical leader <strong>James Dobson<\/strong> upped the ante in the contest for the Republican presidential nomination. In a New York Times editorial, he confirmed that he and other pro-family leaders will vote for a third-party candidate if the Republican nominee is not pro-life. The threat is aimed directly at Rudy Giuliani, who is pro-choice.<br \/>\nThese leaders feel that they can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t support a pro-choice candidate without unacceptably compromising principles in which they strongly believe. Period. End of discussion.<br \/>\nFar be it from me to urge anyone to compromise their principles. Yet I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help but note that their position may end up doing far more harm than good. Their votes for a third-party candidate are meant to make a stand for life. Ironically, they could instead set the pro-life cause back for many decades.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasblog.com\/200710091000629\/tara-ross\/a-shot-in-the-foot.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s more from Dallasblog on Dobson&#8217;s threat last week&#8230; Tara Ross writes: Late last week, evangelical leader James Dobson upped the ante in the contest for the Republican presidential nomination. In a New York Times editorial, he confirmed that he and other pro-family leaders will vote for a third-party candidate if the Republican nominee is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/re-third-party-candidates-for-conservatives-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">re: Third party candidates for conservatives<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[86,88,59,52,87],"class_list":["post-3019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-2008-presidential-campaign","tag-dr-james-dobson","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-mike-huckabee","tag-president-of-the-united-states"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-MH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}