Losing Well Is the Best Revenge

WILLIAM McGURN

When Grantland Rice wrote that it’s not whether you win or lose that counts but how you play the game, it was more than half a century ago and he was talking about football. But the same words could as appropriately be written today about the beating the Republicans took on November 7. Republicans had long made it clear that they didn’t know how to win. What they proved Election Tuesday was that they don’t know how to lose.