Strange bedfellows in the GOP

Crazy GOP candidate Ron Paul got an unlike endorsement from the owner of the BunnyRanch brothel in Carson City, Nev., apparently due to some fevered, er, lobbying by bow-tied right-wing TV gasbag Tucker Carlson.


(Really, MSNBC reports. You can't make this stuff up.)


Seems that while traveling with Paul, Tuck -- famously deflated by losing a battle of political wits with comedian Jon Stewart -- called up a pal, the owner of the brothel. "Dennis Hof is a good friend of mine, so when we got to Nevada, I decided to call him up and see if he wanted to come check this guy out," Tucker said. My buddy the pimp. Really, he said it.


Hof showed up with two of his ladies, Brooke Taylor and a woman known as Air Force Amy, and all three were wowed. (The ladies didn't quite endorse; Amy perhaps balked because she supports the troops and Paul is anti-war.)


Now, for a true libertarian this would be no surprise. But Paul quite famously believes the US government is constitutionally prohibited from regulating anything EXCEPT a woman's womb, which could mean career trouble for the trio.


But Hof has endorsed him, just as Tucker Carlson apparently endorses the BunnyRanch. And shoot, who'd know more about GOP politics these days than a trio of pros -- except maybe a page or two.