Creepy? Yes.

Worse, the message is confusing. It's the kind of negation of a negation idea that leaves people scratching their heads. Like "It is never not okay to vote against Ron Paul." What?

You try to overthink the situation and you get ads like this one.

I viewed the video and I think it might be a hoax video. The production quality is very poor and very unlike anything that I've seen from any presidential candidate. I don't know squat about Ron Paul or his politics so that is my disclaimer. I have a very hard time taking the video seriously.

This didn't come from the campaign. No way it did. I've seen one of his legit ads (the only ad he's done?) and it was quite normal.

I would have a hard time believing this video was from the official campaign.

I don't know that the video is from the campaign. I assume it probably isn't. Ron Paul is the Howard Dean of this presidential campaign-- getting most of his momentum from hardcore internet-savvy followers. My point was mostly that this is the kind of stuff that gets produced by some of the element that is gung ho for Paul. The element that produces this stuff is mainstream within his followers, and therefore his base lacks the capacity to sell his message to mainstream America.

If what you say it true and I have no reason to doubt that, you are quite correct that his base lacks the capacity to sell his message to mainstream America. If this is an indication of his base his base is wack.

The title of the video is "Don't Vote for Ron Paul" so I think we can conclude this did not come from his campaign or fan base. Paul has managed to communicate with enough Americans to be voted into Congress several times over, so I don't think that will be his downfall.

Ron Paul is a "kinder-gentler" Pat Buchanan (w/ a smidge of Ross Perot thrown in for good measure) but equally marginalized unfortunately. Its unfortunate that only the big money machines (Romney, et. al.) get the heads of steam needed to be viable.