{"id":14566,"date":"2012-04-12T10:59:03","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T15:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=14566"},"modified":"2012-04-12T10:59:03","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T15:59:03","slug":"reason-tv-why-democrat-vs-republican-is-the-wrong-way-to-look-at-the-2012-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/04\/12\/reason-tv-why-democrat-vs-republican-is-the-wrong-way-to-look-at-the-2012-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Reason.tv: Why Democrat vs. Republican is the Wrong Way to Look at the 2012 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KyaUP2cucyk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We had a non-Obama president recently, his name was George W. Bush, it wasn&#8217;t all puppy dogs and rainbows,&#8221; says Reason&#8217;s Matt Welch. &#8220;Being Republican is not enough to counter Obama. Mitt Romney is not offering an alternative to Obama,&#8221; adds Reason.tv&#8217;s Nick Gillespie.<\/p>\n<p>From Newt Gingrich&#8217;s inexplicable campaign chatter about a taxpayer-subsidized colony on the moon to Mitt Romney&#8217;s refusal to discuss any specific spending cuts he would implement as president, Republicans continue to offer no real substantive alternative to President Obama&#8217;s spendthrift economic policies.<\/p>\n<p>Welch and Gillespie, the co-authors of &#8220;The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What&#8217;s Wrong with America,&#8221; hosted the discussion &#8220;Why Democrat vs. Republican is the Wrong Way to Look at the 2012 Election&#8221; at Reason Weekend, the annual donor event held by Reason Foundation (the nonprofit that publishes this website).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We had a non-Obama president recently, his name was George W. Bush, it wasn&#8217;t all puppy dogs and rainbows,&#8221; says Reason&#8217;s Matt Welch. &#8220;Being Republican is not enough to counter Obama. Mitt Romney is not offering an alternative to Obama,&#8221; adds Reason.tv&#8217;s Nick Gillespie. From Newt Gingrich&#8217;s inexplicable campaign chatter about a taxpayer-subsidized colony on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":""},"categories":[84,10,28,53,13],"tags":[768,188,550,517],"class_list":["post-14566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-liberty","category-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-democrat","tag-electionwatch","tag-libertarianism","tag-republican"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3MW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14567,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14566\/revisions\/14567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}