{"id":996,"date":"2011-12-28T18:29:57","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T01:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=996"},"modified":"2011-12-28T18:42:30","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T01:42:30","slug":"prospector-paul-reckons-thars-gold-in-i-o-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=996","title":{"rendered":"Prospector Paul Reckons Thar&#8217;s Gold in Them Thar Cornfields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size-full wp-image-997\" title=\"ronpaulprospector\">It&#8217;s looks like there might be a new front runner in the GOP Con-a-thon 2012 Presidential race; that eternal contrarian, Ron Paul. Really? Ron Paul? The guy who&#8217;s been running since 2007 and no one takes seriously? Well, that crusty ol&#8217; codger is leading in some polls with the Iowa caucuses only a week away. Paul has plodded along in the back of the Republican field mostly because of his libertarian views; he&#8217;s too conservative for liberals and he&#8217;s too liberal for conservatives. However, he has many staunch fans who like his cantankerous demeanor and his all-over-the-map views on issues ranging from his non-interventionist foreign policy to his vehement anti-abortion stance to his pro-prostitution views. We here at the Bucket see him as that ol&#8217; prospector sidekick from the westerns. He&#8217;s good for comic relief and pushing discussions and issues forward, but should he really be leading the posse. Con sarn it, we&#8217;re agin&#8217; it!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1003\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1003\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=1003\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1003\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1003\" title=\"prospectorpaul\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/prospectorpaul.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/prospectorpaul.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/prospectorpaul-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1003\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOP candidate and crusty, contrarian curmudgeon, Ron Paul, reckons he&#39;ll rustle up some votes and vittles in ol&#39; I-O-WAY.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s looks like there might be a new front runner in the GOP Con-a-thon 2012 Presidential race; that eternal contrarian, Ron Paul. Really? Ron Paul? The guy who&#8217;s been running since 2007 and no one takes seriously? Well, that crusty ol&#8217; codger is leading in some polls with the Iowa caucuses only a week away. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=996\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Prospector Paul Reckons Thar&#8217;s Gold in Them Thar Cornfields&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,230,8,3],"tags":[234,331,22,147,9,330,332,98,19,329],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions\/1013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}