What's eye-rolling about Paul is not the wack-a-doodle comments he makes (DP has that archetype in spades!) but that he presents himself as just a middle of the road, practical guy who calls things as he sees them... 


....And then proceeds to spew forth Wingnut talking point as if he'd typed out a transcript of Sean Hannity's garbage-fest.

In Vietnam, it wasn't the low IQ servicemen who might be susceptible to Viet Cong brainwashing, selling out America, and making propaganda statements.  Nor was the high IQ ones. It was always the 'middle brow' types who were just smart enough to formulate a sentence but sufficiently unintelligent to not grasp the errors in the propaganda they were biting into hook, line & sinker.  There's quite a lot of folks like that - NewsCorp relies upon that to sell detergent to those who can't get enough of "Jesse" or "Sean" or "Eric" or "Tucker" every night on Fox, the type who drive B.O.'s "Killing x" to the top of the book charts.