The Right’s Resurrection – by Peter Collier

“MSNBC correspondents David Schuster and Tamron Hall spent some time trying to shape the battlefield for today’s elections in their afternoon news show yesterday. They featured DNC Chairman (and outgoing Virginia governor) Tim Kaine, an oddly implausible fellow who tried to test run the narrative by which his Party plans to snatch victory out of the jaws of defeat after all the hanging chads are examined.

…Appealing to conservatives, therefore, may be more a growth industry than a death sentence for Republicans, if it is accomplished pragmatically and without creating the death squad mentality that characterizes the left wing of the Democrat Party.  There are twice as many conservatives in the country as liberals, Gallup told us last week.  And this trend appears to be growing in an era marked by a fetid combination of weakness, narcissim, and unbridled power hunger in the White House.  Conservatives, to paraphrase the late Irving Kristol, are liberals and moderates who have been mugged by Obama.  And those like Tim Kaine and his MSNBC enablers now trying to create a narrative that will make today’s electoral results look good may ultimately be sorry that they were not more careful in what they wished for.”