{"id":3740,"date":"2011-03-24T21:14:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T03:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/the-loons-gather-in-new-mexico\/"},"modified":"2011-03-24T21:14:25","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T03:14:25","slug":"the-loons-gather-in-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/the-loons-gather-in-new-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"The Loons Gather in New Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wilson is \u201ctoo moderate.\u201d No one will be more conservative unless they\u2019re on the \u201cloon right,\u201d which is \u201clike coming back around on the left.\u201d (Yes, they\u2019re so conservative their liberal!) It\u2019s going to be great fun watching Republicans shoot each other in the foot in 2012.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newmexicoindependent.com\/69355\/attacking-wilson-as-moderate-type-sanchez-says-hell-decide-on-senate-run-soon\">Attacking Wilson as \u2018moderate-type,\u2019 Sanchez says he\u2019ll decide on Senate run soon | New Mexico Independent<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sanchez also was dismissive of the tea party movement, saying, \u201cI don\u2019t necessarily need to be the Tea Party candidate.\u201d He did say that he agreed with tea party positions like smaller government and less taxes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newmexicoindependent.com\/69355\/attacking-wilson-as-moderate-type-sanchez-says-hell-decide-on-senate-run-soon\">Attacking Wilson as \u2018moderate-type,\u2019 Sanchez says he\u2019ll decide on Senate run soon | New Mexico Independent<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newmexicoindependent.com\/69342\/sowards-there-will-be-no-one-to-my-right-in-gop-primary\">Sowards: \u2018There will be no one to my right\u2019 in GOP primary | New Mexico Independent<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThere will be no one to my right, and I believe the other candidates are more conglomerated around the moderate area,\u201d Sowards said, according to David Cantanes. \u201cI don\u2019t see how anyone would get between me and conservative principles. They can go to the loon right, which is, as far as I\u2019m concerned, like coming back around on the left.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Sowards also said that Pearce supporters had told him they would oppose a second Senate run from the Republican congressman. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newmexicoindependent.com\/69342\/sowards-there-will-be-no-one-to-my-right-in-gop-primary\">Sowards: \u2018There will be no one to my right\u2019 in GOP primary | New Mexico Independent<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/03\/sowards-sells-himself-as-the-conservative-candidate\/\">Sowards sells himself as the conservative candidate | NMPolitics.net<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Sowards has run for federal office twice in the past, without success; however, with the growth of the tea party movement, he appears to be getting a closer look from some influential groups this time around. He also recently got a prominent mention in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/03\/sowards-gets-prominent-mention-as-tea-party-candidate\/\">an investors.com article<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>One of Sowards\u2019 missions is to keep U.S. Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/pearce.house.gov\/\">Steve Pearce<\/a>, R-N.M., out of the race.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/03\/sowards-sells-himself-as-the-conservative-candidate\/\">Sowards sells himself as the conservative candidate | NMPolitics.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilson is \u201ctoo moderate.\u201d No one will be more conservative unless they\u2019re on the \u201cloon right,\u201d which is \u201clike coming back around on the left.\u201d (Yes, they\u2019re so conservative their liberal!) It\u2019s going to be great fun watching Republicans shoot each other in the foot in 2012. Attacking Wilson as \u2018moderate-type,\u2019 Sanchez says he\u2019ll decide &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/the-loons-gather-in-new-mexico\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Loons Gather in New Mexico<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loco","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}