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Deep Thots

And a few shallow ones rounded up for your mulling as the fatal day draws nigh. Here’s Kristol at NYT, cheerfully, with helpful hints to libs on how to look on the bright side of a McCain win. Unstated subtext … it’s a growth opportunity: how to lose without being whining, conspiracy-theorist babies or destructive vandals about it. You know, the way they ran their race:   

Down the street from Uncommonly Sensible’s house. OK, conspiracy theory … the McCainist homeowner or one of his neighbors did it to make conservatives look bad!

A Conservative Reckoning, Gurwitz at San Antonio Express News:

a Democratic tide threatens to swamp Republicans in down-ballot races across the nation, turning large portions of even reliably red states blue. After 28 years, doomsayers are writing obituaries for the Reagan Revolution.

Not so fast. As Democrats learned to their consternation in 2000 and 2004, voters determine the results of elections, not polls. Yet even if the polls are correct, conservatives should take heart. On the ruins of the late, profligate Republican Party, a new foundation can be laid — a project that should have begun two years ago.

And as they learned in 2006, simply taking power dsoesn’t mean you’ll know how to exercise effectively, let alone responsibly.

No matter the results of the election on Nov. 4, and despite the tarnishing Republicans have given to conservatism, America remains a center-right country.

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The 2006 election should have been the wake up call. The current Democrat-controlled Congress has the worst public approval ratings on record. Yet even against this leadership deficit, a Republican Party plagued with the scandal-ridden legacy of DeLay, Ted Stevens, Duke Cunningham and others couldn’t offer a meaningful alternative.

If Nov. 4 goes as predicted, a conservative reckoning will take place on Nov. 5.

The Republican leaders who presided over this disaster must go. A new generation of reformers must take charge — two years too late, and not a moment too soon.

Douglas MacKinnon at NYT bemoans the loss of media credibility and wants a reckoning. Doesn’t get that the media sees the criticism as proof its objectivity, and will point to truthers and Cope Pink type who see the NYT and the AP as rightwing mouthpieces, while superficial studies that look at headlines and ignore the language and content find its not such a big deal.

“Blacks Dreams Will Come True. Then What?” Laura Washington at the Chicago Sun-Times. This one’s fun for its admonishment to blacks that Obama must be president before he must be black, something like that and it’s gushing about his Messianic qualities. No race-baiting, no one going under the bus:

Obama’s virtually flawless campaign reaped big love from millions around the world.

Yeah, it was great. It helped that the rampant sexism, negative attacks, voter registration fraud were all handled by surrogates, and that Obama got a pass on scrutiny himself.

Nobel laureate Krugman covers his ass with the possibility of a GOP upset, then goes on to mistake the GOP for the Democrats … you know, the party of whiny loserism.

John Nichols at the Nation: Lincoln would have liked Obama better. And a bunch of other stuff equally idiotic.

Ralph Peters, NY Post: Condemned to lead. That’s us in the world, and the next president will either see us wacked for ebing a bully and mocked for being wussies.

Peter Beinart, WPost, Palin as the “Last of the Culture Warriors.” He thinks an Obama win, generatiuonal shift ends that war. OK, if he does win, let’s talk in four years. 

With thanks to RCP and Memeorandum on the roundup.

Topics: pols

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 2:56 pm on Monday, November 3, 2008

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