On Sep 28, 2011, at 5:45 PM, Lenin's Tomb wrote:
> On 28/09/2011 18:36, Doug Henwood wrote:
> On Sep 28, 2011, at 1:32 PM, c b wrote:
>>> Congressman/Presidential candidate Ron Paul wrote, ""The beneficial,
>>> educational impact of the John Birch Society over the past four
>>> decades would be hard to overestimate. ...
>> Wow, that's terrible. Where did you get it?
>
> Is it really that shocking? If you look at his books of speeches, he's obviously been a far right conspiracy theorist for some time.
It's shocking mainly from a marketing standpoint. Paul is totally awful, and the occasional left weakness for him is inexplicable. But the JBS is so outre that I thought that an actual elected official might want to keep his distance from them.
Doug