For those of you who don’t know, Truthers (or, as we normal Americans derisively call them, “Troofers”) are the barking moonbats who think that Bush engineered 9/11 for (insert paranoid asshat reason here). The head of the Troofer movement is certifiable nutbar Alex Jones, who actually has a radio show. (Sidebar: if he really thinks the government’s out to shut him up from “exposing the truth about 9/11″, how does he explain the fact that they allow him to have a radio show?)
Republican presidential candidate and Bircheresque crank Ron Paul routinely goes on Jones’ radio show for some mutual man-love. Now, we find out that the 9/11 Nutter donated $2,300 to Paul’s campaign. But hey, just because Paul lowers himself into the gutter with Jones, and just because Jones would donate $2,300 to Paul, and just because Paul won’t condemn the Troofer “movement” like Bubba did, does not mean that Paul is a Troofer, m’kay? I mean, I’m sure Jones would gladly plunk down $2,300 to any other politician who subscribes to the heresy that 9/11 was committed by jihadist camelhumpers and not Bushrummy McHitlerburton! For those of you on the left, the prior sentence was sarcasm.
As Ace superbly states it:
I don’t completely buy that a candidate isn’t responsible for his supporters. If a campaign attracts so many malcontents, racists, anti-semites, paranoids, America-haters, conspiracy-mongers, and political pornographers, well, I assume there’s a reason for this grand crossing-the-streams of weirdness.
[...] that a dude who manages to raise $20 million can’t get over 7% in the polls. I guess currying favors with Troofers, anti-Semites, neo-Nazis, and other societal vermin can only get you so [...]
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