It's been obvious to anyone who lingers in the comments sections that Rand Paul's base has disappeared. I'm sure long time Atlantic commenters remember how just the inclusion of his name in the headline guaranteed 1000 comments about Freedom!™ and Liberty!!™ and Let's Take Our Country Back!!!™.

Among my left leaning friends who saw the potential for a new kind of foreign policy (best described by me as "Not Drones") he's been outed as a two faced fraud in a bed head hair piece and they find his flailing attempts to court F undies alarming.

So, you know, good riddance Aqua Buddha. Thanks for letting me say to my friends, one more time, "Told you so."

Rand Paul's problem is that among my right leaning friends who saw the potential the Rand wasn't an anti military isolationist kook , he's been outed as a two faced fraud. IOW, he's managed to convince people with diametrically opposed foreign policy views that he can't be trusted.