{"id":199645,"date":"2007-07-09T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/09\/we-have-entered-bizarro-world\/"},"modified":"2007-07-09T10:55:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T15:55:00","slug":"we-have-entered-bizarro-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/09\/we-have-entered-bizarro-world\/","title":{"rendered":"We Have Entered Bizarro World."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">serious<\/span> Republican candidate to to say &#8220;Out of Iraq&#8221; sweeps the table in the primaries.<\/p>\n<p>That is what the message is here.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that, and the fact that McCain is a sick old man who has sold whatever integrity he ever had to the Bush white house.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalradar\/2007\/07\/ron-paul-tops-m.html\">Ron Paul Tops McCain in Cash on Hand<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>ABC News&#8217; George Stephanopoulos Reports: Though often regarded as a longshot candidate for president, Republican Ron Paul tells ABC News that he has an impressive $2.4 million in cash on hand after raising an equal amount during the second quarter, putting him ahead of one-time Republican frontrunner John McCain, who reported this week he has only $2 million in the bank.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think some of the candidates are on the down-slope, and we&#8217;re on the up-slope,&#8221; said Paul.<\/p>\n<p>Paul&#8217;s cash on hand puts him in third place in the Republican field in that important metric, although he is well behind leader Rudy Giuliani, who has $18 million in the bank, and Mitt Romney, with $12 million.<br \/>&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first serious Republican candidate to to say &#8220;Out of Iraq&#8221; sweeps the table in the primaries. That is what the message is here. Well, that, and the fact that McCain is a sick old man who has sold whatever integrity he ever had to the Bush white house. Ron Paul Tops McCain in Cash &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,978,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199645"}],"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=199645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}