{"id":3850,"date":"2007-09-06T07:34:24","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T14:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/06\/ron-paul-as-buster-douglas-his-triumph-last-night\/"},"modified":"2007-09-06T07:34:24","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T14:34:24","slug":"ron-paul-as-buster-douglas-his-triumph-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/06\/ron-paul-as-buster-douglas-his-triumph-last-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul as Buster Douglas &#8211; His Triumph Last Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ronpaul2008.com\/\"><strong>Ron Paul<\/strong> <\/a>trumped in last night\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Republican Presidential Candidate Debate in New Hampshire.\u00c2\u00a0 His views on Iraq and freedom were shining beacons amidst the black smoke the other candidates emitted.<\/p>\n<p>As the rest of the GOP hopefuls tighten their chains to the war wagon heading over a cliff, Paul\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s views will propel him forward.<\/p>\n<p>Every month that Paul remains in the race, he becomes more dangerous to the Establishment.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Paul\u00c2\u00a0 is the Buster Douglas candidate.\u00c2\u00a0 Douglas was a 42 to 1 underdog when he fought undefeated Mike Tyson in 1990.\u00c2\u00a0 The experts thought that the only question was\u00c2\u00a0whether Tyson would knock him out in the first, second, or third round.<\/p>\n<p>But Douglas fought tough from the first round.\u00c2\u00a0 In round ten, he caught Tyson with a flurry of punches that ended Iron Mike\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reign.<\/p>\n<p>I posted higlights from Paul&#8217;s comments on my blog <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/06\/ron-paul-trumps-in-last-nights-debate\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Paul trumped in last night\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Republican Presidential Candidate Debate in New Hampshire.\u00c2\u00a0 His views on Iraq and freedom were shining beacons amidst the black smoke the other candidates emitted. As the rest of the GOP hopefuls tighten their chains to the war wagon heading over a cliff, Paul\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s views will propel him forward. Every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-3850","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\/3850","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\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3850"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}