Another Day, Another Idiot

I went on Helium.com this morning to check out the front page.
Occasionally they have some interesting stuff (once in a while some of mine), sometimes some really rivetting stuff.
Today? Headline item, some guy going on about Obama being a Socialist.
Again?
Does he know what he is talking about? No. Absolutely not, but then I have more or less given up on common-sense or intelligence from such individuals.
Is Obama a Socialist? OK - define "Socialist".
In my university days (when dinosaurs roamed the earth), I used to pal around with "Socialists" - all 57 varieties of them.
In the 2002 French elections there were three Trotskyist candidates, two Communist candidates, one mainstream PS (Social Democrat) candidate and one independent Social Democrat candidate. All of them "Socialists". Really - six out of seven would not have agreed with what the other "Socialists" thought, they were not real "Socialists".
And I frankly doubt that Obama would have been on the same page with any of all seven of them.
I have stayed out of the American Health Care debate (not my business), but as a neutral observer, I would remark that the only way that it could have contained traditional Social Democrat elements would have been if it had included a "public option", which was dropped from the bill early in the game. A public option like they have in that country full of dangerous Marxists called .... "Canada"! Stephen Harper, Alberta's answer to Karl Marx? I saw a seditious poll incidentally indicating that some 13% of Americans disapproved of the Health Care bill as it did not include a "public option". Not my issue, I digress.
Anyway I read the Bio of this guy on Helium's front page this morning. He is a conservative blogger.
A conservative? A George W Bush (run up 7 trillion dollars worth of public debt and let's invade yet another country without being asked) conservative? A Margaret Thatcher (close down the textile mills, close down the steel works, close down the mines, close down half of the ports, now where did all these idle feckless unemployed come from? Never mind, borrow, speculate, borrow some more, speculate some more, borrow even more, speculate even more, and, while we are at it, let's bomb Libya) conservative? A Carly Fiorina (25% decline in the HP share value and thousands of jobs exported to China and India while she was CEO) conservative? A Sharron Angle (let's get rid of Social Security and make the elderly who need it live in tents) conservative? A Sarah Palin (I couldn't even finish my term as Governor of Alaska without quitting, but now I want to run the country for 8 years, and while we are it let's increase military spending, even if we cannot afford it, and invade Iran) conservative?
Nearly as wide a variety of them as there are "Socialists"!
And about as much sense from all of them .....