{"id":27910,"date":"2011-12-13T17:04:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T21:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27910"},"modified":"2011-12-13T17:04:36","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T21:04:36","slug":"ill-admit-it-i-thought-ron-paul-was-crazier-than-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27910","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll admit it. I Thought Ron Paul Was Crazier Than Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I try to always offer a sort of balance til now. WAPO again, and this time a genuine OPED piece.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/five-myths-about-ron-paul\/2011\/12\/07\/gIQAu3vOiO_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Five myths about Ron Paul<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sorry folks, you will have to read the whole thing, but I&#8217;ll give you this bit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Unlike his fellow, er, top-tier candidates Gingrich and Romney, Paul served his country in uniform, as an Air Force captain. However, his opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and his insistence that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ronpaul2012.com\/the-issues\/national-defense\/\">military spending can be cut<\/a> without endangering U.S. lives, have led some to conclude that his foreign policy non-interventionism equals unilateral disarmament.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oddly,\u00a0 I <strong>have<\/strong> read much of what Ron Paul has actually said. If I had to position this piece I&#8217;d\u00a0 suggest that some folks are raising him up to be a spoiler.<\/p>\n<p>Back to singing Kumbaya&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I try to always offer a sort of balance til now. WAPO again, and this time &hellip; <a title=\"I&#8217;ll admit it. I Thought Ron Paul Was Crazier Than Me!\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27910\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;ll admit it. I Thought Ron Paul Was Crazier Than Me!<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}