{"id":193849,"date":"2008-11-12T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/12\/shoot-me-im-quoting-racist-nutbag-ron-paul\/"},"modified":"2008-11-12T18:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T23:23:00","slug":"shoot-me-im-quoting-racist-nutbag-ron-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/12\/shoot-me-im-quoting-racist-nutbag-ron-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoot Me, I&#8217;m Quoting Racist Nutbag Ron Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/11\/11\/paul.republican\/index.html\">commentary on CNN.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now, in light of the election, many are asking: What is the future of the Republican Party?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">But that is the wrong question. The proper question should be: Where is our country heading?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<em>emphasis mine<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t believe that it is particularly likely that they will ask that question though, because it is a 2nd cousin to asking, &#8220;What is best for the country,&#8221; and movement conservative Republicans don&#8217;t ask that question with regard to governance, because governance, and the government are evil in their minds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He wrote a commentary on CNN.com: Now, in light of the election, many are asking: What is the future of the Republican Party? But that is the wrong question. The proper question should be: Where is our country heading? (emphasis mine) I don&#8217;t believe that it is particularly likely that they will ask that question &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1003,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193849"}],"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=193849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}