Ron Paul Competes For the Unabomber Vote

Posted by Jeff Fecke at 12:00 PM on October 8, 2007.

This post, written by Jeff Fecke, originally appeared on Shakesville

Now, Ron Paul often sounds like the most sane GOP candidate during debates. And who knows? Maybe he is. But that's not so much praise of Ron Paul as damning of the other nuts on the stage with him.

Ron Paul is a wacko. And I don't say that inadvisedly. Yes, there's the nuttiness of the generalized libertarian "eliminate the government/return to the gold standard" rhetoric, but the real kookiness lies in Paul's cozy relationship with the Patriot movement.

Now, you don't hear much about the Patriots anymore; they pretty much reached their peak when Tim McVeigh bombed the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City. After that they went from being a bunch of nutjobs with guns and anti-government leanings (and, not for nothing, a number of fans in the Republican party) to, well, terrorists. But Paul remained a big supporter of the Patriots over the years, sharing their fears of a global elite seizing America away from the people and placing our nation under UN control.

You may object that the idea of the UN seizing control of America when they can't effectively control their own headquarters is a bit of a silly idea. And it is. But it's the common thread that unites the Patriots, the idea that America is going away, and will soon be in control of the brown hordes, and only good, upstanding, quasi-fascist white Americans can save us.

This is something that Ron Paul believes fervently. In a scrawled, rambling, psychotic-guy-on-the-corner fundraising letter, Paul states his case:

I don't need to tell you that our American way of life is under attack. We see it all around us -- every day -- and it is up to us to save it.

The world's elites are busy forming a North American Union. If they are successful, as they were in forming the European Union, the good 'ol USA will only be a memory. We can't let that happen.

The UN also wants to confiscate our firearms and impose a global tax. The UN elites want to control the world's oceans with the Law of the Sea Treaty. And they want to use our military to police the world.

Brendan Nyhan has dutifully posted a .pdf of the letter, which you should go look at, as the handwritten screed brings that extra level of "crazy guy on the corner" to the already insane ramblings. Paul signs off:

My campaign is in your hands. Please send your most generous gift today to help me spread the message and to retake our nation from the elites who are working to destroy our sovereignty. We cannot...we must not allow this to happen!!!

I don't know much, but one thing we cannot, must not allow to happen is Ron Paul becoming president. Whether he sounds sane or not at the debates, he simply isn't.

Tagged as: election08, paul, patriot movement, mcveigh, anti-government

Jeff Fecke is a regular blogger for Shakesville.