Following Ron Paul’s recent crazed assertion to routinely ineffectual Meet the Press host, David Gregory, that ‘taxation is theft,’ questions reemerged regarding the identity of the Congressman’s home planet.

While ‘Doctor’ Paul dazzles his libertarian fanbase with powers of political reasoning rarely heard outside a 10th grade civics classroom, others not similarly spellbound struggle to figure out if the vaunted libertarian is mentally handicapped or if his whole career has been one long, brilliant piece of performance art: Ron Paul as the Andy Kaufman of political theater.

However, a small number of observers (well, one anyway) have suggested that the public and the media have all failed to recognize the uncanny resemblance between Congressman Paul and 1960s TV actor Bill Bixby’s erstwhile otherworldly live-in alien: ‘Uncle Martin’. *

The recent unedited version of Paul’s Meet the Press interview would seem to confirm those who believe that the Congressman is in reality the gnomish spaceman featured in the 60s era sitcom My Favorite Martian.

* Admit it, you’ve never seen Paul and Ray Walston together have you? No. And no one else has either.

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