{"id":4914,"date":"2011-12-22T13:44:41","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T18:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4914"},"modified":"2011-12-22T13:47:05","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T18:47:05","slug":"perspective-on-ron-pauls-newsletters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4914","title":{"rendered":"Perspective on Ron Paul&#8217;s Newsletters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is increasing attention being paid to old newsletters which went out under Congressmen Ron Paul&#8217;s name in the 1990&#8217;s when he was more Libertarian than Republican. They are awful and his excuse for letting them pass without censoring the racism in them is limp. <\/p>\n<p>That said, I think <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com\/2011\/12\/african-americans-and-ron-paul.html\">this post<\/a> in Sullivan&#8217;s blog which includes several defenses from Ron Paul supporters arguing that Paul is the only friend Blacks have among the GOP candidates is pretty persuasive.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Paul has <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4809\">flaky economic ideas<\/a> that will rule him out as my candidate. And Don&#8217;t tell me that since he will never be able to persuade Congress to enact his flaky economic ideas I shouldn&#8217;t worry about his getting elected. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is increasing attention being paid to old newsletters which went out under Congressmen Ron Paul&#8217;s name in the 1990&#8217;s when he was more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,31,55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4917,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914\/revisions\/4917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}