Some pundits have intelligent things to say, even if now and then they let their emotions step all over their better judgment. Some pundits have little or nothing intelligent to say, and they bask in the spotlight that shines on provocateurs and rabble-rousers. Still other pundits are just loud-mouths, like Sean Hannity of Fox News.

But there is one pundit in class by himself. That would be Frank Gaffney, president of the Center for Security Policy, a right-wing thinktank, and columnist for the Moonie-owned Washington Times. Gaffney might very well be insane. Want evidence? His latest column in the Times, entitled: “The Jihadist Vote.”

Gaffney starts with the premise that there is a well-coordinated effort by assorted evildoers — from the Muslim Brotherhood, the Wahhabis, jihadists of all kinds — to take over the United States. Their vehicle? You guessed it: Barack Obama. “The next three weeks afford the American people — and the media, the courts, and the FEC — an opportunity to get to the bottom of Barack Obama’s ties to and affinity for jihadists,” he writes.

Before I get into the specifics of Gaffney’s deranged charges — charges, I should add, which are consistent with Gaffney’s long history of making extremist accusations — let me say that it is also true that Gaffney can get away with this nonsense because of the climate of fear, hatred, and racism that has been created by John McCain and Sarah Palin’s despicable campaign tactics. (Note, for instance, the proliferation of signs, buttons, and other paraphernalia in McCain campaign events reading: “Obama Bin Lyin’.”)

But Gaffney ventures deep into woo-woo territory.

According to Gaffney, conspirators from the Muslim Brotherhood have provided the Obama campaign with up to $100 million in clandestine donations. He writes:

“A Federal Election Commission (FEC) employee has reportedly been warning for months about evidence that the Obama campaign has received as much as $200 million almost half of his total donations, in amounts less than $200. …

“Of the $200 million, between $30 million and $100 million are from the Mideast, Africa and other places Islamists are active. It is unclear whether – as seems likely – these funds come not only from Wahhabis, Muslim Brotherhood types and jihadists of other stripes but from non-U.S. citizens.”

It gets better:

“There is evidence Mr. Obama was born in Kenya rather than, as he claims, Hawaii. There is also a registration document for a school in Indonesia where the would-be president studied for four years, on which he was identified not only as a Muslim but as an Indonesian.”

And this:

“Its ‘Arab-Americans for Obama’ effort is recruiting Muslim Brotherhood elements to enhance turnout, the Obama campaign is trolling for voters in problematic places. Some are felons in prison systems long used by Islamists as centers for recruiting converts to their causes.”

Are you scared yet? You’d better be, because these secretive Obama supporters — many of whom live in “Washington’s northern Virginia suburbs, the heart of what has been dubbed the ‘Wahhabi corridor'” — have plans for you, says Gaffney:

“The change his Islamist supporters have in mind is for global theocratic rule under Shariah, and the end of our constitutional, democratic government.”

Uh oh.