Last year, Paul invited Chris Simcox, the founder and president of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, to be the events special guest, after Tom Tancredo wouldn't show up..
http://www.offthekuff.com/mt/archives/007808.html#007808
Simcox has a criminal record. He was convicted on a federal weapons charge. He has exhibited so much violent, deranged, and irrational behavior that the courts ended his joint custody arrangement with his ex-wife for his son. His own 14 year-old daughter from his first ex-marriage, who was living with him at the time, ran away to the home of his employer and said that her father had tried to sexually molest her.
He claims he's seen Chinese troops along the Mexican border.
In a speech to the California Coalition on Immigration Reform, a hate group whose leader, Barbara Coe, routinely refers to Mexicans as "savages," Simcox offered a dire warning to his audience.
"Take heed of our weapons because we're going to defend our borders by any means necessary," he said. "There's something very fishy going on at the border. The Mexican army is driving American vehicles -- but carrying Chinese weapons. I have personally seen what I can only believe to be Chinese troops."
http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2006/01/march-of-minutemen_18.html
What sane politician would keep such associations and expect to be the president?