{"id":467371,"date":"2010-03-24T16:02:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T20:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=80338"},"modified":"2010-03-24T16:02:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T20:02:03","slug":"cheney-intervenes-in-kentucky-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/467371","title":{"rendered":"Cheney Intervenes in Kentucky Senate Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Blake <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/gop-primaries\/88773-graysons-cheney-endorsement-help-or-harm\">has the news<\/a> &#8212; shortly after Dick Cheney&#8217;s former aides began drumming up opposition to Kentucky U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul, Cheney has now endorsed Paul&#8217;s opponent, Trey Grayson. Cheney:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m a lifelong conservative, and I can tell the real thing when I see it. I have looked at the records of both candidates in the race, and it is clear to me that Trey Grayson is right on the issues that matter \u2013 both on fiscal responsibility and on national security.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Worth remembering: in the Texas gubernatorial primary, Cheney endorsed Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) while Sarah Palin endorsed the winner, Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas). Palin, famously, has endorsed Rand Paul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Blake has the news &#8212; shortly after Dick Cheney&#8217;s former aides began drumming up opposition to Kentucky U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul, Cheney has now endorsed Paul&#8217;s opponent, Trey Grayson. Cheney: I\u2019m a lifelong conservative, and I can tell the real thing when I see it. I have looked at the records of both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}