Credit Card Thieves for Ron Paul

Gadfly crackpot Ron Paul bedazzled the gullible nitwits in the mainstream press this week with his gimmicky stunt to raise millions online in one day.

Well, it appears some of the credit-card donations were from thieves using stolen credit cards.

Why does this not surprise me?

The presidential campaign of Texas Rep. Ron Paul received donations from overseas thieves using stolen credit cards, reports CBS station KTVT in Dallas/Fort Worth.

Investigators at Frost Bank discovered that the stolen cards were being used to make $5 contributions to the Paul campaign, in an apparent attempt to test the cards.

Frost Bank refunded money from nearly 100 customers and canceled all 500 of the credit cards that had been stolen from the bank. The Paul campaign tells CBSNews.com it has refunded to the bank the donations from the stolen cards, which amout [sic] to about $3,000.

Though Paul's poll numbers in his quest for the Republican presidential nomination are low, his fundraising has been robust. On Monday he raised $4.2 million, a higher one-day total than any Republican hopeful thus far.

Kerri Price, assistant director of communications for the Paul campaign, noted that the donations from the stolen cards represent "a very small percentage of money that was brought in."

Then let's see the records.

Naturally, Ron Paul had nothing to do with any of this.

Added Paul spokesman Jesse Benton: "Ron Paul does not have anything to do with this."

Ron Paul never has anything to do with his campaign.

The white supremacist video for Ron Paul?

Ron Paul has nothing to do with it.

The crackpot amalgam of troofers, nutroots and psychopaths that make up his online spam patrol.

Ron Paul has nothing to do with them.

How dare we question Ron Paul?

H/T: Mean Gene.