I can hardly stand to tune in to the totally predictable and largely unproductive debates over what individuals or groups caused the Republicans to lose the election. Actually, the Democrats won the election. And the Wall Street crash certainly helped them, didn't it?
This election will be chewed over for months. Books will be written, but they probably will be out of date shortly after they are published. We will soon be in different times, staring into new elections. New ideas will be needed by both parties.
Meanwhile, those on the right would be well-advised to cease finger pointing. It is hard to imagine a successful Republican candidate for President without conservatives behind him. And it is hard to imagine a successful conservative movement without economic conservatives, foreign policy/defense conservatives and social conservatives working together. The attempt to read one group or another out of the coalition is bound to be frustrating and ultimately self-defeating.
The biggest effort just now is to kick out the social conservatives. Pundits who couldn't get elected to the town council in Darien or Palo Alto, let alone in Manhattan, think they know all about the electorate that resides psychologically, and often physically, in middle-America. This piece in The American Spectator is a welcome repost to elitist tomfoolery.
