Ron Paul Gets the Kiss of Death

Ron Paul has shown an extraordinary ability to raise money from a bunch of disaffected losers and 9/11 Truthers and an equally extraordinary ability to have that much money and not get a major bump in the polls.

Sorry Paulites, your boy just got the kiss of death and it's gobsmackingly ass-kissing:

He's the real thing in a world of fakes and frauds. And in a primary campaign where the very future of conservatism is at stake, that cannot be ignored. In fact, it demands support.

Go Ron Paul!

Let's be clear Andrew Sullivan, Paul is not a Conservative, he's a Libertarian with some conservative leanings on fiscal issues. But hey, why stop Sullivan when he is so excited he's using exclamation points.

Anyway, Saint Andrew is echoing not only the Paulites but the Dems as well:

Let's be clear: we have lost this war. We have lost because the initial, central goals of the invasion have all failed: we have not secured WMDS from terrorists because those WMDs did not exist. We have not stymied Islamist terror - at best we have finally stymied some of the terror we helped create. We have not constructed a democratic model for the Middle East - we have instead destroyed a totalitarian government and a phony country, only to create a permanently unstable, fractious, chaotic failed state, where the mere avoidance of genocide is a cause for celebration. We have, moreover, helped solder a new truth in the Arab mind: that democracy means chaos, anarchy, mass-murder, national disintegration and sectarian warfare. And we have also empowered the Iranian regime and made a wider Sunni-Shiite regional war more likely than it was in 2003. Apart from that, Mr Bush, how did you enjoy your presidency?

Just read those words. Are those the words of a man who once supported the war? Yes they are and they are also the words of a man who turned on the cause at the first sign of things going bad. Enjoy the other side Sully, we find you even more of an ally when you write things like this.