{"id":5342,"date":"2012-05-14T14:16:24","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T19:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=3468"},"modified":"2012-05-14T14:16:24","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T19:16:24","slug":"ron-paul-to-stop-campaign-but-still-fully-expects-to-be-elected-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/14\/ron-paul-to-stop-campaign-but-still-fully-expects-to-be-elected-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul to Stop Campaign But Still Fully Expects To Be Elected President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-fix\/post\/ron-paul-no-longer-campaigning-in-primaries\/2012\/05\/14\/gIQACDQHPU_blog.html?wpisrc=al_comboNP_p\">Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Texas Rep. Ron Paul (R) announced today that he is scaling back his presidential campaign operation.<\/p>\n<p>He said in a statement that he will continue to fight former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney for delegates at state conventions around the country, but he will no longer spend any money on upcoming primary contests.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He actually probably can do that to some extent. His people are more than willing to break convention and disregard rules and stuff.  Paul will be going into the convention with more delegates than primary winner Santorum from Minnesota becuase they did something like cheating here. <\/p>\n<p>It would be funny if he won the nomination!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Washington Post: Texas Rep. Ron Paul (R) announced today that he is scaling back his presidential campaign operation. He said in a statement that he will continue to fight former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney for delegates at state conventions around the country, but he will no longer spend any money on upcoming primary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/14\/ron-paul-to-stop-campaign-but-still-fully-expects-to-be-elected-president\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ron Paul to Stop Campaign But Still Fully Expects To Be Elected President<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[284,311],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1oa","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}