Your claim that somehow EEE single-handedly "got the John Birch Society behind Ron Paul" is ludicrous. If you knew anything at all about the JBS, which I seriously doubt, you would know that Rep. Paul has consistently scored highest of all members of Congress in the annual Conservative Index published in The New American, a JBS publication. While this is not the same as an endorsement, it would tend to indicate that the leadership of the JBS and Rep. Paul agree on the issues of importance to the John Birch Society (which, I would aver, might also be of importance to members of this forum).
Does their agreeing on such issues as stem cell research, immigration, the minimum wage and protecting the Pledge of Allegiance from judicial activists make Ron Paul a "kook" as you proclaim him to be?
Not in my book.
He’s going to get the pro al Qaeda vote too. But don’t call him a kook.