{"id":1045,"date":"2011-09-01T18:59:24","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T01:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2011-11-12T05:25:39","modified_gmt":"2011-11-12T13:25:39","slug":"progressives-should-treat-ron-paul-with-extreme-caution-cuddly-libertarian-has-some-very-dark-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=1045","title":{"rendered":"Progressives Should Treat Ron Paul with Extreme Caution — ‘Cuddly’ Libertarian Has Some Very Dark Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"
He’s anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-black, anti-senior-citizen, anti-equality and<\/strong> anti-education, and that’s just the start, the\u00c2\u00a0author says.<\/strong><\/div>\n
AlterNet \/ By Adele M. Stan <\/em><\/div>\n
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“There are few things as maddening in a maddening political season as the warm and fuzzy feelings some progressives evince for Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, the Republican presidential candidate. “The anti-war Republican,” people say, as if that’s good enough.”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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He’s anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-black, anti-senior-citizen, anti-equality and anti-education, and that’s just the start, the\u00c2\u00a0author says. AlterNet \/ By Adele M. Stan “There are few things as maddening in a maddening political season as the warm and fuzzy feelings some progressives evince for Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, the Republican presidential candidate. “The anti-war Republican,” people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tQeJ-gR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":754,"url":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=754","url_meta":{"origin":1045,"position":0},"title":"Country Joe and the Fish at Woodstock: “Fixin’ to Die Rag”","author":"Shawn Hamilton","date":"March 29, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Fixin' to Die Rag\" is one of the best anti-war songs of\u00c2\u00a0the period. 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