C’mon, usual suspects.

Here I sit, waiting in vain to hear how Scott “the Snitch” McClellan has betrayed all that is good and right and true, how he is obviously lying (though couldn’t possibly have been lying in the years he acted as Teh Leader’s press secretary) - and how, most of all, the War in Iraq was gravely necessary even though we now have evidence that even the architects of the war itself knew it wasn’t “necessary.”

Or are you willing to concede all this - that the evil lib’rulz who have been saying these things for more than five years were, in fact, exactly right?

Of course you’re not willing to concede this. The one thing a right-winger will never do is admit that he was ever wrong.

But all this is of a piece with the business about Israel’s nukes, and how Jimmy Carter - and everyone else - is supposed to pretend they don’t exist.

It is apparently a cornerstone of the conservative mindset that the American public must be actively deceived as often as is necessary in order to achieve the glorious goals that Our Leaders have decided upon in secret.

Only in ignorance can there be the necessary strength. Sell the fear, because reality won’t sell. Embrace the fear as reality; and accuse all others of weakness. Our misconceptions are to be perpetuated - for they serve a greater purpose.

We lie for the sake of truth.

This is how the conservative movement has manifested itself, in our governance, these past seven-plus years, that is what McClellan’s book confirms. It is a rather large nail in the already rotting coffin of the conservative movment, the burial a virtual certainty at last.