{"id":7101,"date":"2012-02-13T00:00:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T08:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7101"},"modified":"2012-02-13T00:00:43","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T08:00:43","slug":"santorum-and-paul-cry-foul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/13\/santorum-and-paul-cry-foul\/","title":{"rendered":"Santorum and Paul Cry Foul"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republicans are so deeply immersed in the meme of election fraud that now they are even accusing each other of cheating.  As far as I\u2019m concerned, the more they fight among themselves, the better I like it.  It\u2019s especially pathetic when it comes from Ron Paul, because he has not won a single contest.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"13paul-and-santorum\"Mitt Romney scored two minor but symbolically important victories on Saturday — a first-place finish in the CPAC Straw poll and a win in the Maine caucus — each of which set off accusations of foul play from the second place finisher. <\/p>\n

In an appearance on CNN’s "State of the Union" on Sunday, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) suggested that Romney had doctored the results of the CPAC contest. <\/p>\n

"I don’t try to rig straw polls," he said<\/a>. "You have to talk to the Romney campaign and how many tickets they bought… We’ve heard all sorts of things."<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, late Saturday night, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) sent an email to supporters that essentially alleged collusion between the Romney campaign and the Maine Republican Party without actually mentioning Romney by name\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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It\u2019s the same old circus, because the same old clowns know no new tricks.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republicans are so deeply immersed in the meme of election fraud that now they are even accusing each other of cheating.  As far as I\u2019m concerned, the more they fight among themselves, the better I like it.  It\u2019s especially pathetic when it comes from Ron Paul, because he has not won a single contest. Mitt […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}