Oh this ought to be good...
It is a bit of a diversion, but the meme gets tossed out so often it's worth exploring if you ask me.
Funny, sometimes I cruise far left media and read things that essentially could have been written here...except that "radical right" is substituted for "looney left."
I don't think many people realise that at least some hard core leftists supported Ron Paul on economic and budgetary principles, as opposed to just social ones.
Edit: in case it's not clear, I'm saying that Ben's post above is reasonable and that fistful's response doesn't appear to be.