I've heard of some pretty outrageous things in my day, but this one takes the cake.

Brace yourself. I did a double take when I saw this headline: Former pro wrestler and Soviet idealogue Nikolai Volkoff is running for a seat in the Maryland House of Delegates. Don't believe me? Click here.

Nikolai Volkoff! An avowed enemy of freedom! A Communist who carried around the Soviet flag everywhere he went!

Since when do we let America-haters run for office in the U.S. of A.?

Remember watching WWF wrestling in the mid-1980s? (Don't try to act like you didn't, either: Everyone watched WWF wrestling in the 1980s).

Managed by the treacherous "Classy" Freddie Blassie, Volkoff came over to these shores during the height of the Cold War and thumbed his nose at everything that is good and wholesome about the United States, while trying to convert the masses to the teachings of Lenin, Stalin and Marx. He even commandeered the mic and sang the Soviet national anthem before his matches.

So deep was Volkoff's antipathy toward the Stars and Stripes that he teamed with another enemy of liberty: The Iron Sheik, from Iran. Never mind that their two ideologies clashed, and the Soviets occupied Muslim Afghanistan at the time. They worked together for a common goal -- their disdain for America -- and won the WWF tag team title, at the first Wrestlemania, no less.

Thank god for freedom fighters like Hulk Hogan, Sgt. Slaughter and Leaping Lanny Poffo. Without them, I daresay Volkoff and his allies just might have won, and our children would be pledging allegiance to the hammer and sickle every morning.

But now ... now, Volkoff wants to become an elected representative? Once a Commie, always a Commie, I say! If Volkoff gets elected, then the terrorists have truly won.

-- DAVE DOYLE