The trouble isn't so much that as much as Ron Paul reputedly having ties to the
John Birch Society.
That's not all a bad thing of course. The John Birch Society is for smaller government, less regulation, reducing spending absolutely everywhere and for less government meddling across the board. They're pretty much obsessed with getting rid of the Federal Reserve.
The problem is that the John Birch Society has a very conspiracy theory oriented history. According to the society's founder Robert Welch, "Both the U.S. and Soviet governments are controlled by the same furtive conspiratorial cabal of internationalists, greedy bankers, and corrupt politicians. If left unexposed, the traitors inside the U.S. government would betray the country's sovereignty to the United Nations for a collectivist New World Order, managed by a 'one-world socialist government.'"
Welch saw collectivism as the biggest threat to Western Civilization, and liberals as "secret communist traitors" who provided cover for the gradual process of collectivism, with the ultimate goal of replacing the nations of western civilization with a one-world socialist government.
The
New World Order conspiracy theory is where anti-Semitic suspicions arise about the JBS. Inevitably, they would list names of who was on this secret council of ultra-wealthy bankers that were supposedly controlling the world. The wealthiest Jews in the world were
always just happened show up on that list and usually were the majority. It follows that somebody believing that a bunch of super-rich Jews are secretly conspiring to take over the world, and have already mostly succeeded, then one might suspect that you hate Jews.
So the question is, how much is Ron Paul a part of the John Birch Society??