{"id":3493,"date":"2008-02-20T15:50:40","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T21:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3493"},"modified":"2008-02-20T15:50:40","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T21:50:40","slug":"campaigning-on-convictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/campaigning-on-convictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaigning on convictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikehuckabee.com\">Mike Huckabee<\/a> campaign:<\/p>\n<p>My candidacy is, and always has been, about convictions \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and the issues and core values that are critical to our country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s future, such protecting traditional marriage, the sanctity of life, individual empowerment and a revamping of our federal tax code to encourage productivity.  It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about lifting Americans up, from hope to higher ground, with a positive vision for America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s future that is grounded in a belief in our nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s basic goodness, and defined by a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dccan\u00e2\u20ac\u201ddo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 spirit that knows how to gets things done.  My goal is to offer Republican voters, a voice and a choice in this election.  <\/p>\n<p>The last four out of five U.S. Presidents have been governors, and there is a reason for this: the challenges facing our nation require steady, experienced, executive management.  As governor of Arkansas for 10 \u00c2\u00bd years, I delivered on my promises to cut taxes 94 times, reduce welfare by half, reform health care for children and our education system, and transform our transportation infrastructure. My record of results, achieved with a Democrat legislature, gives a meaningful viability to my candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>There are millions of Republicans from across this country who have yet to be heard from. Clearly we were disappointed by the results in Wisconsin, but I look forward to campaigning hard in Texas and Ohio this week \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and taking my case before the good people of those states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Mike Huckabee campaign: My candidacy is, and always has been, about convictions \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and the issues and core values that are critical to our country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s future, such protecting traditional marriage, the sanctity of life, individual empowerment and a revamping of our federal tax code to encourage productivity. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about lifting Americans up, from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/campaigning-on-convictions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Campaigning on convictions<\/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":[277,52],"class_list":["post-3493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-campaign","tag-mike-huckabee"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-Ul","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493","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=3493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}