Army Reservist In Hot Water Over Ron Paul Speech

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4. As he should be--what, did he sleep through his standards/ethics training?

And WTF was wrong with Nitwit's staff? To say nothing of Nitwit himself, standing there on the stage? He runs around making note of his service in the USAF, yet no one on his campaign team saw an issue there? You'd think someone would have engaged their brain, but that didn't happen here. You don't "tout" for a replacement for your sitting Commander in Chief.

The crowd cheered, but observers who know military law cringed.

“He’s got a problem on his hands and certainly he should have known better,” said Eugene Fidell, who teaches military justice at Yale Law School. “All kinds of lights and buzzers should have gone off.”

Had Thorsen been on active duty, he could have faced up to two years in military prison and a dishonorable discharge, Fidell said. But even off active duty, he may still be facing punishment.

Fidell said Paul’s campaign should have known better, too. That night’s third-place finish “must have been better than they expected,” Fidell said, because “they allowed their better judgement to get away from them.”