{"id":2355,"date":"2011-10-17T19:12:45","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T00:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=2355"},"modified":"2011-10-17T19:12:45","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T00:12:45","slug":"cooks-recipe-for-the-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=2355","title":{"rendered":"Cook&#8217;s Recipe for the GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago (Oct 8, 2011) I wrote about the Republican presidential race; I said that although Rick Perry was down and Herman Cain now seems like the favorite, Perry might yet make a comeback, given that he is the only realistic alternative for the Tea Partiers (who seem to have hi-jacked the Grand Old Party).   The fact that Mitt Romney, the logical next-in-line candidate under old-school Republicanism, has been stuck at 25% in the polls for many months speaks volumes on how things have changed. <\/p>\n<p>FYI, there\u2019s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/columns\/cook-report\/the-cook-report-bird-in-the-hand-20111013\" target=\"_blank\">good article<\/a> today about this by political analyst Charlie Cook in National Journal.  Cook says just about what I did.  However, unlike me, Cook summed up Cain\u2019s sudden rise at Perry\u2019s expense rather succinctly:  \u201cCain seems to be functioning as a parking place for conservatives who have grown disillusioned or who harbor reservations about the previous flavors of the month . . . it\u2019s a good bet that Cain is little more than a place for conservatives to window shop while they decide what to do.\u201d  Regarding Perry\u2019s future prospects: \u201cWith the Republican Party wanting to nominate someone of his ilk, the question is whether Perry can effectively grow and develop as a national candidate . . . enough to win outside of the Deep South. If he can, he\u2019s the nominee. If he can\u2019t, he might not be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bravo, well stated! I guess that\u2019s why Cook writes for the National Journal, and I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago (Oct 8, 2011) I wrote about the Republican presidential race; I said that although Rick Perry was down and Herman Cain now seems like the favorite, Perry might yet make a comeback, given that he is the only realistic alternative for the Tea Partiers (who seem to have hi-jacked the Grand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2356,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions\/2356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}