{"id":3192,"date":"2007-01-11T13:24:58","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T20:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/11\/antiwar-republican-congressman-ron-paul-is-running-for-president\/"},"modified":"2007-01-11T18:39:11","modified_gmt":"2007-01-12T01:39:11","slug":"antiwar-republican-congressman-ron-paul-is-running-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/11\/antiwar-republican-congressman-ron-paul-is-running-for-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Antiwar GOP Rep. Ron Paul Running for President!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The news is good &#8212; for once. Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ron_Paul\">Ron Paul<\/a> (R-Texas), the libertarian congressman whose dedication to principle is one of the wonders of the world, is running for the GOP presidential nomination (hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lewrockwell.com\/lewrw\/archives\/012065.html\">Lew Rockwell<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>At last &#8212; a Republican who opposes our interventionist foreign policy (consistently and articulately) and who has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/paul\/paul359.html\">this<\/a> to say about the Iraq war. Rep. Paul <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/paul\/paul51.html\">opposed<\/a> this rotten war from the very beginning &#8212; and, what&#8217;s going to be delightful, is that he is not going to be outdone by any Democrat regarding the Iraq issue.<\/p>\n<p>Better yet, this will exacerbate the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortwayne.com\/mld\/newssentinel\/news\/editorial\/16417302.htm\">split in the GOP<\/a> over the war\u00c2\u00a0and give antiwar activists a banner around which to repair during an election season that would otherwise feature the same rogues gallery of warmongers, fence-straddlers, and all-too-familiar faces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news is good &#8212; for once. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), the libertarian congressman whose dedication to principle is one of the wonders of the world, is running for the GOP presidential nomination (hat tip: Lew Rockwell). At last &#8212; a Republican who opposes our interventionist foreign policy (consistently and articulately) and who has this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3192"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}