{"id":4224,"date":"2009-06-29T13:54:34","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T20:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=4224"},"modified":"2009-06-29T13:54:34","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T20:54:34","slug":"dispatches-from-the-ron-paul-revolution-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/06\/29\/dispatches-from-the-ron-paul-revolution-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dispatches from the Ron Paul Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the life of me, I can&#8217;t tell from what perspective <a href=\"http:\/\/drieuxster.livejournal.com\/1233929.html\">this is coming from<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But it does\u00c2\u00a0link the two current stories in the &#8220;Ron Paul Revolution&#8221; &#8212; the ACLU and &#8220;Campaign for Liberty&#8221; backed lawsuit against a TSA search of a cash-wielding Ron Paul supporter.<\/p>\n<p>Go one further step to the <a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/08\/news\/2009\/06\/18\/aclu-ron-pauls-campaign-for-liberty-sue-tsa-over-illegal-detention\/\">rawstory link <\/a>and you find this puzzling opening.<\/p>\n<p><em>The American Civil Liberties Union may have just earned itself a few more Republican admirers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That greatly disfigures Ron Paul&#8217;s relationship with the Republican Party, but so it shall be.<\/p>\n<p>The other item of news.\u00c2\u00a0 Paul&#8217;s &#8220;Audit the Fed&#8221; has gotten its 218th (ergo majority in the house) sponsor.\u00c2\u00a0 This was pre-arranged, though for the life of me I don&#8217;t really understand the point of the symbolism.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/justin\/ronpaulanddenniskucinich.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"255\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I suppose there is some overlap in support.\u00c2\u00a0 Your alexjones and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fromthewilderness.com\/\">from the wilderness<\/a>&#8220;\u00c2\u00a0type has settled on Kucinich as the Democrat to balance Ron Paul in exposing the Oligarchy, but that&#8217;s just because Cynthia McKinney is out of office.<\/p>\n<p>Though it doesn&#8217;t take too much googling to find support for a Paul \/ Kucinich ticket and the inaccurate sentiment that they are the most ideologically compatible of a bunch.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/05\/08\/handwritten-notes-show-fe_n_200515.html\">not so fast on that bill<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The Senate has a way of reconfiguring things.<\/p>\n<p>Third\u00c2\u00a0item of interest: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/issues\/54_145\/rothenberg\/35804-1.html\">dateline Connecticut<\/a>:\u00c2\u00a0 Stuart Rothenberg is not impressed by Ron Paul accolyte candidate Peter Schiff.\u00c2\u00a0 But that&#8217;s not Peter Schiff&#8217;s point.\u00c2\u00a0 I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the life of me, I can&#8217;t tell from what perspective this is coming from. But it does\u00c2\u00a0link the two current stories in the &#8220;Ron Paul Revolution&#8221; &#8212; the ACLU and &#8220;Campaign for Liberty&#8221; backed lawsuit against a TSA search of a cash-wielding Ron Paul supporter. Go one further step to the rawstory link and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ron-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4226,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224\/revisions\/4226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}