{"id":1879,"date":"2013-05-07T14:49:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T14:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2013-05-07T14:49:53","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T14:49:53","slug":"rand-paul-shatters-left-right-paradigm-can-help-grow-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/05\/07\/rand-paul-shatters-left-right-paradigm-can-help-grow-gop\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul shatters left-right paradigm, can help grow GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beltway critics insist that Sen. Paul\u2019s libertarianism limits him. Some say that the senator\u2019s positions on foreign policy, civil liberties and drug law reform make him unacceptable. They are wrong. Paul\u2019s libertarianism broadens the Republican Party\u2019s appeal. In fact, if the GOP is going to have a fighting chance, it will need to become a more libertarian party.<\/p>\n<p>The heart of American conservatism has always been the simple notion that government is the problem \u2014 that government must be limited in scope, checked in its power and restrained by the Constitution. This was Goldwater\u2019s creed and Reagan\u2019s promise.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/politics\/?x=entry:entry130507-124654\">Rand Paul shatters left-right paradigm, can help grow GOP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beltway critics insist that Sen. Paul\u2019s libertarianism limits him. Some say that the senator\u2019s positions on foreign policy, civil liberties and drug law reform make him unacceptable. They are wrong. Paul\u2019s libertarianism broadens the Republican Party\u2019s appeal. In fact, if the GOP is going to have a fighting chance, it will need to become a more libertarian party. The heart of American conservatism has always been the simple notion that government is the problem \u2014 that government must be limited in scope, checked in its power and restrained by the Constitution. This was Goldwater\u2019s creed and Reagan\u2019s promise. via Rand Paul shatters left-right paradigm, can help grow GOP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1425],"class_list":["post-1879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-rand-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}