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The news that offbeat Texas congressman Ron Paul has regularly hung out with the white supremacist American Renaissance and taken money from Neo-Nazis doesn’t surprise me. Cobb has a good analysis, comparing AR to black race hustlers like Al Sharpton:

"I’ve boxed several rounds with AmRen types and their basic beef is typical white resentment–but when the rubber meets the road, they are in many ways the mirror image of the worst aspects of Sharpton.com: media hustlers who wish to try the courts and government in the media sowing seeds of paranoia and distrust."

I like blimps, but Paul’s blimp is floating out on the fringe with Huckleberry as far as I can see. Indeed, even farther out. In any case, he’s just about as electable beyond his base: i.e., no chance whatsoever. Meanwhile, it’s 28 degrees inside Paul’s silly blimp, floating over wintry Baltimore.

UPDATE  This recitation of Paul’s bigotry doesn’t surprise me, though it seems unfair to rake anyone over things they said or wrote back in the day when black civil rights was a controversy and not a settled fact. The anti-Semitism, of course, is inexcusable, though not unheard of then or now.