For comparison to my assertions regarding the election, here is some conservative analysis about the 2008 Election Cycle entitled “What Went Wrong” , by Victor Davis Hanson. (h/t Little Green Footballs).
An excerpt I think is particularly apropos:
I supposed one could cop out, and claim that there is truth in all three explanations. But my sense is that most people — who, after all, get a job, eventually buy a house and have to maintain it, have children, and respect the traditions of their families’ past — end up by necessity more conservative than liberal. The challenge is not to water down the conservative message, but to beef it up, even while making it more persuasive to those who are skeptical.
The problem isn’t moving right or left, it’s simply sticking to the guns that won the fight the last time we were at this point, a.k.a. the 1994 MidTerms.
