{"id":184836,"date":"2012-01-07T19:58:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T00:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/07\/first-ron-paul-now-rupaul\/"},"modified":"2012-01-07T19:58:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T00:58:00","slug":"first-ron-paul-now-rupaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/07\/first-ron-paul-now-rupaul\/","title":{"rendered":"First Ron Paul, Now RuPaul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2012\/01\/07\/rupaul-makes-surprise-new-hampshire-campaign-announcement\/#.TwjDHrfHzgY.facebook\">politicking in New Hampshire<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Drag superstar and reality TV host RuPaul made an appearance on the campaign trail in New Hampshire on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Looking spruce in an ice blue tailored wool coat and studious-looking, horn-rimmed glasses, the nearly seven foot tall \u201cSupermodel\u201d singer was \u201ccampaigning\u201d in the state. He announced that his goal is to raise awareness that he is not Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas), and that he is not running for president. The latter piece of news was met by the assembled crowd with some disappointment.<\/p>\n<p>The International Man\/Woman of Mystery then issued a challenge to Ron Paul and all of the other Republican candidates before reminding the crowd, \u201cYou better vote.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If he were in the debates, it would be one for the ages.<\/p>\n<p>The oddest thing here is that if he <b>were<\/b> running for the Republican nomination, I think that it would actually make it a more reality based community.<\/p>\n<p>We are living in <b>very<\/b> strange times.<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"369\" width=\"500\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KZaFVseuAgE?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KZaFVseuAgE?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"369\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are politicking in New Hampshire: Drag superstar and reality TV host RuPaul made an appearance on the campaign trail in New Hampshire on Saturday. Looking spruce in an ice blue tailored wool coat and studious-looking, horn-rimmed glasses, the nearly seven foot tall \u201cSupermodel\u201d singer was \u201ccampaigning\u201d in the state. He announced that his goal is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[977,1027,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presidential-campaign","category-video","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184836"}],"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=184836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}