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One News Now, the daily ezine that's sent out by a far-right organization called the American Family News Network, reports that even Ron Paul is not wingnut enough for certain elements of its readership demographic.
In an article called "Tea Party Fave in Spotlight for 'Gay' Stance" we discover that one
Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center of Military Readiness, says however that Paul supported President Barack Obama and homosexual activists with his vote during last year's lame-duck session of the 111th Congress to repeal "don't ask, don't tell" -- the law excluding homosexuals from serving openly in the U.S. military.
"People should know that Ron Paul voted for gays in the military in 2010," Donnelly states. "I think he should be held accountable for that vote. Certainly anyone who supports the military should question his support of the armed forces with that vote on his record."
Hands up all those who've before now never heard of the Center of Military Readiness. And hands up all those who sniggered in puerile fashion at the juxtaposition of Donnelly's subject matter with the name of the organization she represents.
And most of all hands up anyone who failed to recognize the astonishing level of irrationality behind that non sequitur in Donnelly's last reported sentence.
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As an aside, I think the American Family News Network is the
