{"id":30568,"date":"2012-09-21T06:13:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T11:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30568"},"modified":"2012-09-21T07:31:50","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T12:31:50","slug":"the-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30568","title":{"rendered":"The Choice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very wise friend of mine, who has gotten heavily involved in the Ron Paul camp in the past couple of years, asked &#8220;So in this election, you have a choice between the guy who&#8217;ll take 35% of your income, and the guy who&#8217;ll take 39%&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Er&#8230;take the 35%?<\/p>\n<p>And work like hell to get a conservative Senate and keep the House?<\/p>\n<p>I know; many among the Ron Paul supporters &#8211; especially the ones who are trying to pretend Gary Johnson is relevant &#8211; are claiming there&#8217;s no difference between Romney and<\/p>\n<p>Incrementalism is only bad if a) it&#8217;s in the wrong direction and b) you can&#8217;t at least maintain, if not accelerate, it in the right direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very wise friend of mine, who has gotten heavily involved in the Ron Paul camp in the past couple of years, asked &#8220;So in this election, you have a choice between the guy who&#8217;ll take 35% of your income, and the guy who&#8217;ll take 39%&#8221;. Er&#8230;take the 35%? And work like hell to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-conservatism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30568"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30570,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30568\/revisions\/30570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}