ABC - When it comes to Senate candidates, Stan Jones is a stand-out -- he's blue. The 63-year-old Montana Libertarian has turned blue from drinking a silver solution that he made himself by electrically charging a couple of silver wires in a glass of water.
The fact that Senator Jones is turning a grayish sort of blue is only slightly more strange then the reason he gives for taking the silver solution that is turning him that shade.
Jones says he started taking colloidal silver in 1999 because he feared Y2K disruptions might lead to a shortage of antibiotics. The business consultant and part-time college instructor says his skin began turning blue-gray about a year ago.
"People ask me if it's permanent and if I'm dead," he said. "I tell them I'm practicing for Halloween."
He does not take the supplement any longer, but the skin condition, called argyria, is permanent. The condition is generally not serious.
Colloidal silver dietary supplements are marketed widely as an anti-bacterial agent or immune-system booster, but some consider it quackery.
Quackery indeed. This guy is supposed to be one of our nation's leaders, yet he not only bought into the Y2K hoax but he also believed in the "medical benefits" of colloidal silver.
I hope this guy isn't heading up any comittees in charge of purchasing in congress. What a sucker.
As Sondra as Dean's World points out, this is yet another reason to steer clear of the Libertarian party.