GOP Car Wreck

WELL before midnight on Election Night, three things became clear. First, the Democrats were having a rollicking good election. Second, liberal pundits were having a rollicking good time talking about it. And third, fumbling Republican operatives and flummoxed conservative pundits had lost their perspective on the election, focusing on the narrow margins of some of the Democrats’ House and Senate wins and rushing to assert that the voters weren’t repudiating their ideas – just the GOP Congress and its corruption, profligate spending, and soggy leadership.

I’m not denying that some of the Democratic gains were won narrowly