If you read this blog, you realize I have no time for those dullards who are obsessed with calling Barack Obama a socialist, arguing he cames from Kenya and engaging all the other ranting you hear from recent converts to what they think is conservatism.

Guess what, boys and girls?

Obama is a typical Beltway insider, right in the mainstream of D.C. politics.

And I'm including the Beltway Republicans in that.

If you think the George W. Bush crowd was any less in favor of big spending and big government than the current crowd, you weren't paying attention.

Ron Paul's supporters were. And they don't get excited by the sort of mindless rhetoric that revs up the tea-party types. Here's a piece from Lew Rockwell's blog by Adam Sparks on what happens when one of these tea-partiers tries to get that nonsense past a Ron Paul rally:

Sparks has got some good points about how the small-government tea-party movement was hijacked by big-government Republicans.

He's also got some good points about overenthusiastic Ron Paul fans. Many still believe he's going to win the GOP nomination. He's not.

But that's okay. It's nice to see them retaining their enthusiasm for a campaign that could liven up the Republican convention. In that regard, check the clip below on how Paul's organizing efforts are outflanking the Mitt Romney crowd.