Anyone, it seems, can take a ride on the Not-Mitt Roller Coaster.

It’s all pretty devestating, but here’s the twist of the knife:

And no one seems to care about this, but as Ben Domench was noting yesterday on Twitter, Ron Paul’s posture as a “small government conservative” is a lie. While he makes sure he votes against every appropriations bill, he nonetheless inserts billions in earmarks for his home district, and calls himself principled for doing so.

In other words, while he talks a good game about limiting federal spending, he has immunized himself from the political consequences of taking a hardline stance on the federal government’s sugar-daddyism, by making sure all of his local special interests get paid.

Including in areas of obvious federal concern, like connecting bike trails in the greater Galveston metropolitan area.

Hey, Jefferson rode a Huffy. It’s in The Constitution, man.

I don’t know how no one considered that someone who attracts obnoxious, faux-conservative mob-fodder followers could be an obnoxiously racist, fake conservative.