One, to respond to Luzid, you may want to look a little deeper before painting with to wide a brush. Yes he’s a registered Republican. One who spent most of his early career in government fighting against the Republican party. The GOP has spent more time trying to get this guy out of office then the Dems. They eventually called a truce when Paul agreed to vote with the GOP on procedural matters, but the GOP doesn’t even bother hiding the fact that they don’t like the guy and would be very happy to have him out of office.

Second, and more importantly, I’d say his support has a lot more to do with a general anti-authoritarian aspect in his campaign that goes much further then anyone else in the major two parties, then it does with any fiscal reform issues. The geek world has always had a very strong anti-authoritarian streak in it and Paul is the only major candidate that speaks to that.

I’m not even sure how people can BE republican with all thier crimes so obvious to so many. Ron Paul may not count among the criminals (and makes a couple of points worthy of discussion), but he’s not THE nerd candidate. I’m not sure there is one.

As someone who hasn’t really met any nerdcore artists personally, though, the myspace post linked there still looks like it could be potentially read as implying that the stuff in the article did occur as described, but the source just regrets admitting to it. Not saying that’s what happened—just saying that’s how it could be read.

Hmm. That link may not work. The important bit is:

“Oh crap. I’ve learned a valuable lesson: If you tell a reporter who’s writing an article about rapping nerds an anecdote about a geek rap concert that devolved into a chaotic mess of questionable activity, the guy might like, actually print it. “