Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Three Ways of Explaining Defeat - By Victor Davis Hanson - The Corner - National Review Online

Three Ways of Explaining Defeat - By Victor Davis Hanson - The Corner - National Review Online: "In Michigan in September I had a talk with a retired auto worker who did not care that the bailout cost $25 billion, was not sustainable, shorted the legal first-in-line creditors, shorted politically incorrect managerial pensioners, or ensured the Volt debacle. He simply said to me, “Obama saved my son’s job and I don’t care about much else.” That’s the rub in the short-term that seems to the norm in at least the past and future few years. It means that the Republicans, without a once-in-a-lifetime, Reagan-like perfect candidate — or some sort of national crisis in the manner that Iran once derailed Jimmy Carter, or Ross Perot once caused incumbent George H. W. Bush to implode — can’t quite get that extra 2 to 3 percentage points they need on the national scene to succeed."

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