{"id":184301,"date":"2012-06-08T21:02:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T02:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/06\/08\/the-aqua-buddha-running-mate\/"},"modified":"2012-06-08T21:02:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-09T02:02:00","slug":"the-aqua-buddha-running-mate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/06\/08\/the-aqua-buddha-running-mate\/","title":{"rendered":"The Aqua Buddha Running Mate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know that my track record sucks, but I am not predicting that <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2012\/06\/08\/rand-paul-would-be-an-honor-to-be-romneys-vp\/\">Rand Paul will be Mitt Romney&#8217;s running mate<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>A day after endorsing Mitt Romney, Sen. Rand Paul said it would be an honor to run alongside the presumptive GOP presidential nominee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A year, year and a half ago, I was a physician in a small town,&#8221; Paul, the junior Republican senator from Kentucky, told CNN&#8217;s Don Lemon. &#8220;And it would be a great honor to be considered as a vice president for the Republican Party. I think that would be something that anybody who said otherwise would not be being truthful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Paul, who on Thursday came out in support of Romney, said on CNN he had not discussed with the candidate the prospect of joining the GOP ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Paul, a tea party favorite and son of presidential candidate Ron Paul, said his father &#8220;has always been my first choice,&#8221; but that the nominating process favored Romney.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rand Paul has said that he would have run this year had his dad, Ron Paul not run, and he is clearly <b>very<\/b> receptive to the idea of being Mitt&#8217;s running mate.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, he has serious teabagger cred.<\/p>\n<p>I would not call him a slam dunk, but to my mind, he is the most likely selection right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know that my track record sucks, but I am not predicting that Rand Paul will be Mitt Romney&#8217;s running mate: A day after endorsing Mitt Romney, Sen. Rand Paul said it would be an honor to run alongside the presumptive GOP presidential nominee. &#8220;A year, year and a half ago, I was a physician &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,1206,978,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-mitt-romney","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}