Congratulations, Ron Paul. You’ve once again managed to come in dead last among candidates who actually campaigned in a primary - except this time, you can’t blame it all on those Jesus freaks in Iowa. This was New Hampshire, which should have been your most fertile territory in all the early primary states. And unfortunately, it looks like “your most fertile territory” still pretty much equates to “Republicans don’t like you or your message.”

At this point, I’d favor action by the Congressional Republican Caucus to extricate you from their ranks. There are lots of reasons for this: the fact that you were, ahem, apparently totally unaware of the racist contents of numerous eponymous newsletters (I swear, that’s believable, really), the fact that you thought that the way that Pol Pot cleaned up the mess after we left Vietnam was great, the fact that you’ve publicly stated that we should not defend South Korea if the North Koreans attacked, the fact that you see Jack Kemp and Bob Dole as terrorists, but not the PLO, and well, we could go on and on. I think there are plenty of reasons listed above that the Republicans in Congress wouldn’t want to be associated with you - and it appears that Republican primary voters are also not comfortable with you being associated with our party. And while nobody wants to kick members out of the Caucus when we’re in the minority, in extreme cases, it’s necessary for people to know that there’s a certain level of scum we won’t be associated with.

Now, maybe it doesn’t have to come to that. Maybe you can just recognize the obvious and declare that the antipathy is mutual and run as the Libertarian Party member that you really are. I mean, it’s not exactly like it would be a new experience for you. And then, when you’re done losing as a Libertarian, this time you could not come back and pretend to be a Republican again. It can all be very simple and painless, see? Look, even the anti-war Republicans have loudly proclaimed that you’re not their guy, so the sooner we can stop pretending that the liberals, conspiracy theorists and other Libertarians you’ve got voting for you have any interest in getting a Republican elected, the better.

We’re saying it with our votes as loud as we can, Ron: get lost. If you need the message repeated in some different format, we’re happy to oblige with that as well.