Or so says someone on The New Centrist blog. I am left somewhat confused by this man’s post. Clearly, he doesn’t understand Ron Paul and his ideology. Mr. Middle-of-the-Road’er refers to Ron Paul’s supporters as the “Paulistas.” Ok, fair enough – sometimes things are going somewhat overboard, IMHO. But then he sees a Pon Paul appearance in New Hampshire and accuses Paul of mumbling and being befuddled, confused, and downright uncomfortable speaking in public. Now this is not the Ron Paul I know and have heard. In fact, I’d go so far to say that this statement is a contrived distortion of the truth. Paul is an electric and inviting speaker, and his public appearances and interviews are anything other than what Mr. No Ideology has stated.

Now here’s the kicker for me: this left-neocon (you can read that here) states – and without zero support to back up his statement – that Ron Paul is against free trade. Here is his quote: “I suppose when your political reality is restricted to the Internet you can say pretty much whatever you want (for example, Paul is supposedly a libertarian, but he is against free-trade). Back in the real world, in actual politics—not virtual reality—words have distinct meanings.” So first, we are told that Paul is an anti-free trader. Whatever his faults, according to various libertarians, Paul has not ever wavered on the free trade issue, especially to the point where he can be considered “anti.”. Thus I will write Mr. Left-Neocon to get further clarification on this uninformed statement.

On another note, I shudder to think that The Centrist is claiming that “actual politics” is ‘the real world” (his quote) and real people working real jobs and paying very real taxes who voice their ideas and opinions on the Internet is some “virtual reality” akin to a video game that mimics the theft of automobiles or the shooting up of foreign enemies. Anyone who has half-a-brain left knows that the powermongering ploy of politics is anything but ” the real world.” Politics is created and supported by a coercive, monopolizing government – the only thing that makes its existence possible. Politicians, who are granted monopoly power by the state, 1) make the rules and “legally” redistribute the booty to their funders; 2) point a wet finger to the wind in return for the gaining of votes; 3) speak meaningless bullshit as a means of gaining favor from the uninformed, gimme-those-sound-bites crowd; 4) and methodically redistribute favors and money amongst special interests so as to balance their authoritarian desires with the ability to stay in political office long enough to preserve their power and continue the path to personal glory. But we are offered the notion that real people voicing their concerns and passions on the Internet – grandpas, young intellectuals, college kids, housemoms, everyday Joes, etc. – are not the “real world.” But the State’s coercive and rule-bound version of the world is what is “real.”Then, this guy tries to explain the meaning of corporatism to his readers – he is clearly confused and not intellectually grounded on the subject of corporatism. His paragraph on this topic leaves me with eyes glazed over. Now do you want to understand why this *unnamed* individual hates Ron Paul so much? His blog links to several Zionist blogs, as well as several socialist labor websites and the “Small Wars Journal,” which celebrates “operations undertaken under executive authority, wherein military force is combined with diplomatic pressure in the internal or external affairs of another state whose government is unstable, inadequate, or unsatisfactory for the preservation of life and of such interests as are determined by the foreign policy of our Nation.” So he loves war and hates Paul – but why ramble on with absolutely no basis (let alone a single link) for his arguments?

Lastly, this anti-Paulian warmonger states that “Paul did manage to blame Sarbanes-Oxley for many of the country’s current economic problems, rather than a lack of oversight in sub-prime lending.” Now, as one who is fully engaged in the deepest bowels of Sarbanes-Oxley oversight for a very large corporation, day in and day out, I can tell you that comparing the problems caused by Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and sub-prime lending is like comparing the nutritional benefits of flax seed to the Housing Bubble fallout.

Now SOX and sub-prime are affecting the economic world in two drastically different ways: SOX is a condition of total government intervention in the private sector wherein regulators, in trying to assuage and manage the collective fear of potential speculators, have forcibly buried private businesses in layers upon layers of bureaucratic controls testing, documentation, and attestation. The sub-prime blowout, however, is a result of the Fed’s ongoing monetary policy and the loose lending standards that are encouraged by the Fed-created credit bubble, the complete breakdown of lending standards – thus the ensuing debt free-for-all. The two issues require very separate and distinct analysis because they inject their poison into the US economy on different levels with very distinct causal factors. So how does this person conflate the problems caused by SOX with the fallout of sub-prime? His explanation on this subject is not to be found.

I now understand why this blogger chooses to remain nameless. The only thing that made him worthy of my attention was his strange interpretation and fabrication regarding Ron Paul, with absolutely no follow-up to his statements. To those committed to the truth, that should be unacceptable.