Heaven help us!

Ron Paul won the 2012 Republican presidential straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference this weekend, defeating Mitt Romney by nine points.

This is an excellent argument for not taking anything that happens at the conference seriously. It is also an excellent argument for not taking at least 31% of the people who are attending the conference seriously.

If there were a snowball's chance in Tartarus of Paul actually being elected president, that would constitute a threat to our national security beside which al Quaeda would look like the American Legion.

Rep. Paul may or may not be a native of Planet Earth. Most of his supporters clearly are not. But even if he meets constitutional requirement that our Chief Executive be a native-born American (which would seem to imply also being a native-born Terran), neither Paul nor his supporters live on the same planet with the rest of us.