Moral Minority

Time has an interesting article on the myths being spun about the election. The last one is the one I found most interesting:

MYTH: Republicans lost their base.
REALITY: The base turned out, they just got beat.

I seem to remember saying, some while back, that these people are a minority. It's the big dirty secret that they -- and their political tools -- don't want you to know. This time, the wingnuts lost the independents. Wham!

Mike Pence is claiming it's because the Republicans lost their limited government princples. What a load. Does he really think that if the Republicans had reduced the size of the government, kept the budget under control, etc., etc., etc., the electorate would have been willing to swallow Abramoff, Katrina, Iraq, and Foley?

Puh-leeze.

(Actually, thinking about it, they might have. Except the two are mutually exclusive, I think.)