{"id":38755,"date":"2011-08-28T15:45:14","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T15:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/rick-perry-ron-paul-without-the-baggage\/"},"modified":"2011-08-28T15:45:14","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T15:45:14","slug":"rick-perry-ron-paul-without-the-baggage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/rick-perry-ron-paul-without-the-baggage.php","title":{"rendered":"Rick Perry; Ron Paul without the baggage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-XNsGuSu5Nz4\/TlZRauMnfJI\/AAAAAAAAU88\/U86ehl7U3t8\/s1600\/ronpaulweird.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/207f6_ronpaulweird.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p><p><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Ko-S5dNJaUE\/TlZRkNje8LI\/AAAAAAAAU9E\/HvCTL8PhQJY\/s1600\/RickPerryprofile.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/207f6_RickPerryprofile.bmp\" border=\"0\"><\/a><strong>Two Texans Splittin' the Tea<\/strong><\/p><p>Excerpted, column, Bud Kennedy, Perry, \"Paul compete for Tea Party vote\" <a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/2011\/08\/23\/3309375\/perry-paul-compete-for-tea-party.html\">Ft. Worth Star-Telegram<\/a>, Aug. 23:<br><\/p><blockquote><p>Paul, a Lake Jackson obstetrician, former Libertarian candidate and favorite of some Tea Party groups, has already joked to crowds that Perry's early Texas tough talk \"makes me sound like a moderate.\"<\/p><p>[2010 Perry GOP primary opponent Debra Medina]... \"when [Perry] talks about smaller government and stabilizing the economy -- that's what Ron Paul has talked about all along.\"<\/p><p>Paul's supporters organized the first Tea (\"Taxed Enough Already\") Party rallies here in 2009, before Perry campaigners and Republican organizers co-opted the name at Tax Day rallies. Their books even have echoing titles: Fed Up! (Perry) and End the Fed (Paul).<\/p><p>Jerry Polinard, a political science professor at the University of Texas-Pan American, said Paul is \"very attractive\" to a party shifting rightward.<\/p><p>\"Right now, they see Paul as a pure conservative, but they think Perry might be both ideologically pure and electable,\" he said. \"Perry can't be the most right-wing candidate in the race. That's Ron Paul. But all Perry has to say is that he's the most right-wing candidate who can beat Obama.\"<\/p><p>The two will meet -- for the first time, Paul has said -- at a campaign forum Sept. 5 in South Carolina.<\/p><p>They might split the Tea.<\/p><\/blockquote><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/207f6_7828681836623105417-113573477217749665?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Texans Splittin' the TeaExcerpted, column, Bud Kennedy, Perry, \"Paul compete for Tea Party vote\" Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, Aug. 23:Paul, a Lake Jackson obstetrician, former Libertarian candidate and favorite of some Tea Party groups, has already joked to crowds that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/rick-perry-ron-paul-without-the-baggage.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}