Ron Paul and his true believers

Dave Neiwert at his Orcinus blog takes another look at what we see when The real Ron Paul surfaces 10/11/07. Check out the YouTube video with a hearty endorsement of Paul candidacy from Stormfront Radio, Stormfront being one of the best known hardcore militia-type Web sites out there.

This is a good instance of a case where we need to look to see why an extremist organization or group would endorse a candidate. Groups can always make mischief by doing something like that. Campaign laws put restrictions on advertising in such cases. In other words, it would be illegal for the Democrats, say, to create a phony group called the Proletarian Revolutionary League to Destroy Capitalism by Armed Struggle which would then run ads endorsing the Republican candidate for his opposition to gun control laws.

Of course, one of Erik Prince's Blackwater executives could contribute to an existing party, the New Jersey Green Party, in order to pull votes from the Democratic candidate. But that's (technically) a different story.

But in the examples Neiwert discusses, this isn't a case of far-right groups like Stormfront Radio, or David Duke's Web site, or the nativist/racist Robert A. Taft Club promoting Paul as some kind of "lesser evil". Those are his homies. That's the tribe he hangs with. As Neiwert reminds, Ron Paul for a long time has been playing patty-cake "with right-wing xenophobes, racists, and conspiracy theorists". And he closes by asking, "You have to wonder how he's managed to keep it hidden for so long. Has the press been looking the other way?"

Apparently so.

Tags: authoritarianism, isolationism, old right, ron paul

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