Say Anything Blog

If there’s one thing Ron Paul did at the summit it was prove just how much of a crank candidate he really is.  The guy who introduced him (I missed his name) was a fossil.  Essentially an animated corpse who introduced “Dr. Paul” in such a monotone voice I was actually looking for a cord trailing out of one of his pants legs on the off chance that this guy might actually be some sort of a robot.

When Paul hit the stage there was some very loud cheering, but it was very scattered at best.  Which pretty much sums up Paul’s entire support statement.  Very, very loud activists who make a lot of noise but are actually quite few in numbers.

But back to Paul’s speech, it was the usual mix of xenophobia (the foreigners are getting our money!), isolationism (we can’t be the world’s police!) and sheer crankish conspiracy theories (the North American Union!).

Paul talked quite a bit about the North American Union, calling it at one point the “proposed North American Union,” and I think that gives us a peek into Paul’s fevered mind.  This conspiracy theory has taken such a firm hold in his mind that he actually believes there are people out there in power who are proposing this.

There aren’t, of course, but that doesn’t matter to Paul.

The only really enjoyable part of Paul’s entire performance in front of the audience was when he got the metaphorical “stage hook.”  He’d been on a red-faced tirade about the unconstitutionality of this and that for so long that the event organizers actually had to start his exit music to get him off the stage.

At which point you could almost hear the audience heave a sigh of relief as one.