The postmortems of the 2012 vary. I've come to realize that, polls notwithstanding, America is not the center-right nation that we'd like to believe it is. From a recent column of mine...
First, we must face the reality that conservatives are in the minority. Forget the perennial Gallup polls showing that self-identified conservatives outnumber liberals 2-1. This is in name only. It’s a reflection that we have successfully promoted a brand but have failed to explain its benefits. Meanwhile, the Democrats have established an actual majority voting alliance of beneficiaries of government largesse.Similar thoughts from Mark Steyn...
Indeed, if nothing else, the unfortunate events of November 6 should have performed the useful task of disabusing us poor conservatives that America is any kind of “center-right nation.” A few months ago, I dined with a (pardon my English) French intellectual who, apropos Mitt Romney’s stump-speech warnings that we were on a one-way ticket to Continental-sized dependency, chortled to me, “Americans love Big Government as much as Europeans. The only difference is that Americans refuse to admit it.”Even so -- perhaps surprisingly -- Republicans still had a fighting chance in the 2012 election. Jim Geraghty points out that 407,000 votes in 4 states made the difference. With a margin well less than 1 percent, every vote matters, every dollar matters.
Michael Patrick Leahy of Breitbart.com is suspicious that some in the Republican establishment sought to enrich themselves and it may have cost us the White House. Read his ongoing investigative pieces: FEC: ROMNEY CAMPAIGN, RNC PAID OVER $150M TO TWO WELL-CONNECTED CONSULTING FIRMS and ONE-THIRD OF RNC'S FINAL FIVE WEEKS OF SPENDING WENT TO ONE TELEMARKETING FIRM and stay tuned.
Says Leahy: Audit the RNC.
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