{"id":1339,"date":"2007-08-15T15:12:41","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T07:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2009-04-25T16:21:35","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T08:21:35","slug":"1334-of-ron-paul-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1339","title":{"rendered":"[1334] Of Ron Paul said&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p class=\"body1\"><span class=\"body\">When asked how he would confront his opponents&#8217; charges, Paul&#8217;s answers are as straight and flat as a Texas highway. &#8220;The media would love it if you got real, real personal. But I just have trouble drifting from the issue itself. &#8230; I&#8217;m challenging them to think about policy. Nobody, liberals or conservatives, Republicans or Democrats wants to challenge overall Middle East policy. It is sacred. There&#8217;s oil. There&#8217;s the neocon idea of spreading democracy. There&#8217;s Israel. You just shouldn&#8217;t dare challenge our eternal presence in the Middle East. So they attack the messenger in a personal way.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amconmag.com\/2007\/2007_06_18\/cover.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Lone Star<\/em><\/a>. Michael Brendan Dougherty. The American Conservative. June 18 2007]<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When asked how he would confront his opponents&#8217; charges, Paul&#8217;s answers are as straight and flat as a Texas highway. &#8220;The media would love it if you got real, real personal. But I just have trouble drifting from the issue itself. &#8230; I&#8217;m challenging them to think about policy. Nobody, liberals or conservatives, Republicans or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1737,132,292,319],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-government","tag-libertarianism","tag-republicans","tag-ron-paul","tag-us-presidential-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3786,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions\/3786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}