Despite One Nation leader Pauline Hanson claiming she personally vetted the candidates for the WA election almost every day one is exposed for their baffling beliefs and inappropriate comments on social media.
Some of the candidates that have slipped through the net so far claim the gay community uses Nazi-style mind control to get people to support same sex marriage; single mums are "too lazy to attract and hold a mate" and another wannabe pollie has advocated killing Indonesian journalists, and attacked "poofters", Muslims and black people."
![Michelle Myers with One Nation leader Pauline Hanson.](/web/20170217072837im_/http://www.watoday.com.au/content/dam/images/g/u/c/o/9/x/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gufhyd.png/1487306942188.jpg)
But One Nation voters don't care, because they simply don't believe a word of it.
And while I'm reluctant to roll out the old Trump-factor chestnut, the media in the United States tried to bring down the now-President on every opportunity and he was treated as a sideshow freak by journalists.
![Richard Eldridge is running for the West Australian upper house in the southern metropolitan area of Perth.](/web/20170217072837im_/http://www.watoday.com.au/content/dam/images/g/u/d/x/e/5/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gufhyd.png/1487306942188.jpg)
But disenchanted voters in small town America looked beyond what they saw as "fake news" and half-truths and saw Trump as the "great white hope".
Don't get me wrong, I'm not accusing any media outlet in WA of rolling out any "fake news", but when another story about the peculiar shenanigans of a PHON candidate is uncovered, their supporters just see it as lies, hoaxes and disinformation.
You can just picture a One Nation household around WA when one of their acolytes is exposed by the media.
"The left-wing loony media is at it again Beryl," George sighs.
![One Nation candidate for the PIlbara David Archibald called single mums 'too lazy to attract and hold a mate'](/web/20170217072837im_/http://www.watoday.com.au/content/dam/images/g/u/2/v/o/8/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gufhyd.png/1487306942188.jpg)
"Now they are claiming a One Nation candidate is saying the gay community uses Nazi-style mind control to get people to support same sex marriage.
"Is it the bloody ABC,? yells Beryl from another room.
"No, someone called WAtoday.
"Why is someone called WA potato writing about One Nation," Beryl bellows back.
I'm not suggesting for one nanosecond the media should stop excavating and digging around into the past of One Nation candidates or any other political candidates for that matter, if journalists uncover something newsworthy.
But Notre Dame political expert Martin Drum said exposing PHON candidates as "idiots" was doing little to dissuade the army of followers from voting for the party.
"They are voting for the brand," he said.
 "This is why exposing One Nation candidates as idiot's has little effect.
"Also, One Nation's brand is anti-establishment, anti-politician.
"If this is what people are voting for, they are already switched off from mainstream media, mainstream politics anyway.
"Many voters are disaffected and that won't change on account of a negative media report.
"Most of them are just as sceptical of the media as they are of normal politicians."
WA One Nation leader Colin Tincknell said to reporters earlier in the week, One Nation candidates were selected because they were genuinely representative of the Australian public.
"They may be inexperienced but they are like [the] major population of Western Australia," he said.
"They are inexperienced but they've got experience in life."
Dr Drum said many of the One Nations voters wouldn't care who they were voting for.
"One Nation's actual candidates in a seat don't matter all that much," he said.
"Hardly anyone will have heard of them. I suspect many One Nation voters don't expect them to be elected."
 Murdoch University senior political lecture Ian Cook said people in Australia loved "underdog parties".
"Of course, Australians support underdogs, especially when the underdog is up against the major parties," he said.
"For me, it is more a case that ON voters are so anti-government and anti-establishment that they can't switch back to supporting the major parties and so they don't react to negative stories about ON.
"For me, name recognition is an important factor when it comes to voting and just getting into the media can help.
"They're certain getting a lot of media attention and so they're on people's minds.
"It's asking a lot to expect the media to ignore what will help to sell news."
Dr Drum said even Pauline Hanson would have a threshold when it came to selecting a candidate.
"There is a point where voters won't vote for someone," he said.
"Even if you were disaffected you wouldn't vote for a sex offender."
But in the end, despite all the fact-checking and investigative journalism it appears One Nations voters are just not listening.