Steve Skojec

Much to my chagrin, the truth can’t be hidden any longer:

…today is when this newspaper blows the top off of the Ron Paul Conspiracy, that vast unorganized protest movement that has silently become one of the more interesting political phenomena of the current election season.

A Times reporter — we’ll call him James Rainey to protect his identity — has managed to penetrate the Paul presidium.

In his story he recounts for the very first time the shockingly ordinary details of a movement of thousands of disparate, dissatisfied people, some of whom want an end to the Iraq war, an end to gun controls and the IRS, an end to laws banning marijuana and a return to the gold standard, whatever that means.

These Paulites believe the government has been hijacked by a bevy of big interests that threaten the freedoms of ordinary Americans. They’re not going to take it anymore. Locally, they’re even organizing a re-enactment of a brazenly defiant act, the BostonTea Party, except it’ll be in Santa Monica and won’t involve tea or white people dressed as Indians. And the protestors promise not to leave anything foreign floating in the water.

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Few professionals — well, to tell the truth, no one — actually gives Paul any chance of winning the Republican nomination. But then up until Yorktown back in the 1700s, all the smart Vegas money was on the British.