{"id":3008,"date":"2011-05-24T08:30:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T08:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=3008"},"modified":"2011-05-24T08:30:11","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T08:30:11","slug":"a_new_twist_on_2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=3008","title":{"rendered":"A New Twist On 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/blogs\/beltway-confidential\/2011\/05\/king-giuliani-very-close-joining-gop-presidential-race\">Washington Examiner<\/a>&nbsp;is quoting Representative Peter King of New York as saying, &#8220;(Former New York City Mayor Giuliani) is very close to saying he&#8217;s going to run&#8221; for president in 2012.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The article points out that although Giuliani is a viable candidate, the issue that brought him to national attention, his actions during the 911 attacks, is almost 10 years old.&nbsp; The issues have changed.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not so sure.&nbsp; As Mayor, Giuliani curbed crime, and did a lot to clean up the financial problems of New York City.&nbsp; He is also recognized as strong on keeping Americans safe from terrorism.&nbsp; I am not sure how important the terrorism issue&nbsp;is to many Americans, but I suspect Americans generally want to see a leader who will combat terrorism and prosecute terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>I am a social and fiscal conservative, but there are aspects of a Giuliani campaign for president that I could easily support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Washington Examiner&nbsp;is quoting Representative Peter King of New York as saying, &#8220;(Former New York City Mayor Giuliani) is very close to saying he&#8217;s going to run&#8221; for president in 2012.&nbsp; The article points out that although Giuliani is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=3008\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}