I just spent precious time (that I will sadly never regain) responding to a Ron Paul devotee who also happens to be a mega asshole.
Unrighteousfury, who is obviously as enamored of Ron Paul as Chris *tingles* Matthews was of Barack Obama (back in the day before his recent disillusionment), stumbled upon my
blog post about clueless Ron Paul's naive belief that we can reach out and befriend the Iranians. Like Paul, unrighteousfury is under the delusional assumption that we can actually engage Iranians through
"offering friendship and open trade", as if a little kumbaya and trading some rice and kebabs for some snicker bars will make things all better.
He accuses me in an uber-long,
yawn-inducing post on his blog of being a "dolt", a "dumb ass woman" and for not doing my research. Ironically, the man obviously has not done
his research because he has absolutely
no clue about Islam, let alone the inner workings of ultra religious conservatives like Ahmadinejad and the Iranian Mullahs. He, like Paul, believes that Iran's nuclear ambitions are overblown. Why? because there's no actual proof. Unrighteousfury, lets call him UF, apparently has no idea about the concept of
'taqiya', nor does he have any clue why Ahmadinejad and the Mullahs' belief in the "
12th Imam" might be reason enough to conclude their nuclear ambitions are far from innocent.
He can be forgiven for the woeful ignorance he shares with all the other Ron Paul groupies out there, who for some reason are drawn to a wacky former doctor-turned-politician, but UF is a piece of work. This is what he says about women in the piece dedicated to me:
I swear we need to repeal women’s voting rights. They keep writing this crap and I keep debunking it. Women should just stop blogging about politics all together. Stick with what you know. Here are some helpful examples of things you can occupy your time with that are far more productive than your silly ass opinion about politics.
But checking out the rest of his blog, it's quite obvious the man is a misogynist. In an incredibly insensitive post about
women and rape, he says all women claim to have been raped and says this:
Look, to all you dumb women out there: We know that rape is a terrible thing and a tragedy. By lying about it over and over again, people literally lose interest in it even being a big deal.
Well, UF, I have never been raped nor do I have any friends who were, so your claims are bogus, as is the whole piece you wrote about it. But if you peruse most of UF's posts, you will find that they are replete with references to his 'manliness', which begs the question- why doth the man protest so much?
Ron Paul groupies are certainly a bizarre bunch, unable to respond to criticism of their guru in a civil manner. But we encountered that back in 2008, during his
last bid for Presidency. I'll be glad when this is all over.
