Ron Paul Backers Celebrate Rudy Stomping

Usually people don't get too fired up about finishing fifth in a seven man race. But Ron Paul was clearly psyched last night, mostly because he finished ahead of his nemesis (and frequent debate antagonist) Rudy Giuliani in the Iowa caucus by a score of 10 percent to 4 percent. And he made sure to use the trouncing as an opportunity to tell everyone in his own polite, grandfatherly way that Giuliani could go [expletive] himself.

"I think the evening went well," Paul told his gathered supporters in Des Moines last night. "Nobody made any rash predictions, but I know we didn't come out at the bottom and I know we beat that Giuliani guy!" Supporters cheered enthusiastically, undoubtedly recalling Giuliani's self-righteous scoldings of Paul regarding a little thing he likes to calls 9/11. To more cheers, Paul then asked "Wonder if they're going to ask him if he's gonna drop out tonight!"