{"id":3372,"date":"2012-04-11T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/04\/11\/quick-thoughts-on-santorum-and-romney\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:18:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:18:14","slug":"quick-thoughts-on-santorum-and-romney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3372","title":{"rendered":"Quick Thoughts On Santorum And Romney"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15940,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nraam.org\\\/events\\\/nra%27s-celebration-of-amerian-values-leadership-forum.aspx?ct=e&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20120709083058\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.nraam.org:80\\\/events\\\/nra&#039;s-celebration-of-amerian-values-leadership-forum.aspx?ct=e&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 17:22:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 17:22:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Soon after the Santorum announcement that he was suspending his campaign for President yesterday, I happened to be listening to Rush Limbaugh on the radio. I&#8217;m not usually in a location where I can listen to Rush and this was rather rare for me.<\/p>\n<p>Rush commented that with Santorum out of the race Romney could now start tacking towards the center. He said to listen to Romney&#8217;s speeches starting now to see these indications. Rush&#8217;s comment made a lot of sense and I checked Romney&#8217;s campaign schedule for major appearances in the next few days. His next major appearance will be at &#8211; you guessed it &#8211; the NRA Annual Meeting and its &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nraam.org\/events\/nra%27s-celebration-of-amerian-values-leadership-forum.aspx?ct=e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Celebration of American Values Leadership Forum<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>I will be attending the Leadership Forum and will be looking for signs of this. I definitely plan to report on it for the blog. The old political scientist in me is actually chomping at the bit over it even though these events usually bore me to tears.<\/p>\n<p>Little or no blogging for the rest of the day as we are about to hit the road for St. Louis.<\/p>\n<p>If there is any special gun you want me to check out or booth to visit, just let me know in the comments. I do have an interview scheduled with Paul Barrett who is the author of <i>Glock: The Rise of America&#8217;s Gun<\/i>. If you think of any questions you want asked, just let me know.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soon after the Santorum announcement that he was suspending his campaign for President yesterday, I happened to be listening&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3551,3838],"class_list":["post-3372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mitt-romney","tag-nra-annual-meeting-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7892,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372\/revisions\/7892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}