{"id":1293,"date":"2012-08-25T18:11:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T01:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2012-08-25T18:11:35","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T01:11:35","slug":"kirk-adams-doesnt-fool-the-local-tea-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/kirk-adams-doesnt-fool-the-local-tea-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirk Adams doesn&#8217;t fool the local Tea Parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a robocall today from Pat Boone asking me to vote for Kirk Adams. Sorry, Pat &#8211; I respect you, but you don&#8217;t know our candidates personally, and you missed this one.<\/p>\n<p>I know how these national endorsements work. You make connections and get someone else to speak well of you, and people like Pat Boone and other national figures that I may respect greatly will endorse you. But I&#8217;m not fooled. And it looks like the local Tea Partiers aren&#8217;t either.<\/p>\n<p>I just learned that Tuesday night the East Valley Tea Party held a straw poll, and they voted 94% to 6% to support Matt Salmon over Kirk Adams. The Mountain View Tea Party, where I attend, also strongly favors Matt Salmon, though I don&#8217;t have the exact figures.<\/p>\n<p>I have met Matt Salmon personally. He has been in my home. I have heard him speak, and I have heard Kirk Adams speak. Matt Salmon has political courage, which is exactly what we need in Washington now. Kirk Adams knows how to curry favor with the powers that be. That is a helpful quality. But I respect political courage, and that&#8217;s where my vote is going on Tuesday &#8211; for Matt Salmon.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=www.libertymusings.com&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=35\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:35px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-4419877247826466\";\n\/* 336x280, created 7\/26\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"2207044504\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Click here to visit the Liberty Musings <a href=\"..\/\">conservative politics<\/a> home page.<\/p>\n\t<div class=\"quickshare-container\">\r\n\t<ul class=\"quickshare-genericons monochrome quickshare-effect-expand\">\r\n\t\t<li class=\"quickshare-share\">Share:<\/li> \r\n\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertymusings.com%2Fblog%2Fkirk-adams-doesnt-fool-the-local-tea-parties%2F&amp;t=Kirk+Adams+doesn%26%238217%3Bt+fool+the+local+Tea+Parties+<+The+Liberty+Musings+Blog\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><span class=\"quickshare-facebook\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li>\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertymusings.com%2Fblog%2Fkirk-adams-doesnt-fool-the-local-tea-parties%2F&amp;text=Kirk+Adams+doesn%26%238217%3Bt+fool+the+local+Tea+Parties+<+The+Liberty+Musings+Blog\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Twitter\"><span class=\"quickshare-twitter\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li>\t\t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertymusings.com%2Fblog%2Fkirk-adams-doesnt-fool-the-local-tea-parties%2F&amp;media=&amp;description=I+got+a+robocall+today+from+Pat+Boone+asking+me+to+vote+for+Kirk+Adams.+Sorry%2C+Pat+-+I+respect+you%2C+but+you+don%27t+know+our+candidates+personally%2C+and+you+missed+this+one.+I+know+how+these+national+endorsements+work.%26hellip%3B\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Pinterest\"><span class=\"quickshare-pinterest\">Pinterest<\/span><\/a><\/li>\t\t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertymusings.com%2Fblog%2Fkirk-adams-doesnt-fool-the-local-tea-parties%2F&amp;title=Kirk+Adams+doesn%26%238217%3Bt+fool+the+local+Tea+Parties&amp;source=The+Liberty+Musings+Blog&amp;summary=I+got+a+robocall+today+from+Pat+Boone+asking+me+to+vote+for+Kirk+Adams.+Sorry%2C+Pat+-+I+respect+you%2C+but+you+don%27t+know+our+candidates+personally%2C+and+you+missed+this+one.+I+know+how+these+national+endorsements+work.%26hellip%3B\" title=\"Share on Linkedin\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"quickshare-linkedin\">Linkedin<\/span><\/a><\/li>\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertymusings.com%2Fblog%2Fkirk-adams-doesnt-fool-the-local-tea-parties%2F\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Google+\"><span class=\"quickshare-googleplus\">Google+<\/span><\/a><\/li>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"mailto:?subject=The+Liberty+Musings+Blog:+Kirk+Adams+doesn%26%238217%3Bt+fool+the+local+Tea+Parties&amp;body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertymusings.com%2Fblog%2Fkirk-adams-doesnt-fool-the-local-tea-parties%2F\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share via Email\"><span class=\"quickshare-email\">Email<\/span><\/a><\/li>\t<\/ul>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a robocall today from Pat Boone asking me to vote for Kirk Adams. Sorry, Pat &#8211; I respect you, but you don&#8217;t know our candidates personally, and you missed this one. I know how these national endorsements work. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/kirk-adams-doesnt-fool-the-local-tea-parties\/\">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":[19],"tags":[565,395,394,324,564,79],"class_list":["post-1293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","tag-east-valley-tea-party","tag-kirk-adams","tag-matt-salmon","tag-mountain-view-tea-party","tag-pat-boone","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1294,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}