Mr. Davis, would you consider running for the Senate here in Virginia against Mark Warner in 2014. We need a good GOP candidate for the seat, someone who can cut through Warner's oily charm. We need a candidate who can make inroads into the cores of Dem support in this state, the NoVa suburbs and the black communities. I'm certain you would receive support from the tea parties and grassroots conservatives throughout the Commonwealth. Please consider it.

Wow! Just wow! This is a man who'd confidently predicted a GOP landslide just a few short weeks ago. Without bothering to watch television commercials.

Now he casts aspersions far and wide. Oh, and feigns an apology no less. Poor Mitt Romney, who needs no detractors when he has supporters like Paul Rahe.

Unless Paul comes clean on why he predicted this so wrong, there's no remaining reason to listen to him. Grassroots conservatives have been repeatedly misled over the last 20 years by the conservative intellectual elite. And we are all well and truly sick of them.

Paul is the problem, he's not part of the problem, he defines the problem. The conservatism they all preach has no appeal to the electorate who stayed home on November 6, but could have delivered this election to Romney.

Until Paul and his friends and acquaintances and associates 'fess up to how they might have appealed to Wilmoore Kendall's masses, who know these things in their hips, but did not feel the urge to rise from the couch and cast out this tragic tyranny, then they just need to shut up and do some more thinking.

Wow!

First, I don't concede anything to Schwarzenegger including the Latino vote.

Second, Dick Cheney-shotgun-blast-in-the-face jokes. Oy?! Someone, somewhere, said let's move on.

Third, stopping screwing around with the voters who actually showed up. They favor Obama by definition. Pay attention to the voters who stayed home: middle class and working class white voters, especially males. Appeal to them and you win.

The problem with Harry Reid and the other scoundrels among Senate Democrats is not their behavior. They do whatever they can get away with. Scoundrels were always thus. The problem is that they are never called to account by their colleagues.

For some reason, GOP Senators consider engaging in political fisticuffs beneath their exalted station in life. They are forever interested in the comity of the Senate, as if such a thing existed . . . ever.

Senator Reid should be treated to a verbal pummeling on the floor of the Senate by one or other Republican Senator every single day the body is in session. He should be showed up for the corrupt, venal, lying gutter snipe that he is. All his crooked land deals should be set forth in glorious technicolor detail in the Congressional Record. Every sleazy association should be exposed.

But the Pubs won't do it. Every single one suffers from Cryptorchidism.

I suspect you've missed quite a bit over the last several years.

This comment is extraordinarily uninformed. Anyone can review the two tax returns actually released and find ample evidence of having paid taxes in years past, including the 10 year lookback on all claims for credits for foreign incomes taxes paid. People need to stop relying on the idiotic commentary slung about by biased and ignorant commentators and go the source itself.

Everyone (including Reid himself) knew he was lying; and he continued to repeat the lie. I don't know Mr. Woodberry from Adam, but if I accused him of engaging in a course of philandering over the last ten years, would he feel the least obliged to prove his chastity and loyalty to Mrs. Woodberry, and would any third party hold him to such obligation, based simply and solely upon my accusation?

Yeah, I'm not sure how much I'm trusting Paul Rahe's predictions these days. I got seriously burned trusting him a couple weeks ago. And I don't think the GOP has the stones to confront and take down both the media and the Dems.

The feeling is mutual.

What do I think? I think someone needs to vet the reporting on this story by both the Sydney Morning Herald and the Irish Times. The SMH piece is a screed against abortion prohibitions. The story on which this is based is told by her grieving husband. He's a sympathetic but hardly unbiased sort. The hospital is investigating the death to determine the cause and any wrongdoing. I would be completely surprised if there weren't one or two enterprising lawyers behind this thing. Skepticism, people.

Normally it would take the team of Eleanor Porter, Elizabeth Borton, Harriet Lummis Smith and Colleen Reace working round the clock for a year to produce this much sunny optimism. Adam Freedman has pulled it off by himself in just four numbered paragraphs. There may be a job for you in children's fiction, Adam.

This is one of the most strident posts I've read on Ricochet ever. Does he actually know the General personally? Does he have any evidence to back up the claims regarding the General's character, outside his guilty until proved innocent" inferences from the publicly known "facts"? And who in perdition's flames is Ruth King? There's no biography of her on that obscure site. And she produces no evidence herself, she just gives us a tendentious reading of the General's career. May I ask what her military bona fides are. None, I suspect.

Let's lay off the sanctimonious twaddle long enough for this matter to unfold. There does seem to have been a serious breach of security by the General and his paramour. That's where our focus should be.

The worst thing about this whole sordid, tawdry episode is that it is distracting the news media, the politicians and us internet types from investigating the Benghazi FUBAR. Let's get back to the important things, shall we?

The GOP fell into a trap. By constantly lauding the entrepreneurial class, protecting small businesses (and not so small ones) from tax increases, and firing back at "you didn't build that," they made working class and loads of middle class voters feel like they're contributions were unworthy to the business owners by comparison.

I don't think the failure was merely the Republican party. The conservative intellectual elite also failed this election and should not be let off the hook.

I'm talking about people like Charles Krauthammer, George Will, Michael Barone, Bill Kristol, everyone at the Weekly Standard and National Review, the editorial board and contributors at the Wall Street Journal, all the think tank folks. They have allowed intellectual conservatism to go stale.

They spend all their time criticizing Republican officeholders and Republican candidates instead of thinking hard about how to make conservatism appealing to young voters, Latino voters, and most especially working class and middle class white voters.

Instead, they spend all their time appearing on TV, writing useless popular history and sociology books, appearing on any college campus or corporate conference that will pay their fee and spinning out weekly syndicated columns that focus primarily on placing critical distance between themselves and the GOP regulars & grassroots conservatives they secretly and sometimes not so secretly disdain.

It's a great goof.

Washington is Chicago. He was obviously being blackmailed. This affair apparently began around July, 2011. The resignation letter itself supports this date, as does the FBI investigators' evidence. The White House knew for months. They kept the secret hidden, over FBI objections, for later use.

Petraeus did lie more than once to members of Congress. Then he went silent until the CIA statement that it didn't refuse any requests for help in Benghazi. That statement pointed the finger at the West Wing and Pentagon. Throughout the CIA furiously leaked to Eli Lake, Sharryl Atkisson, Jennifer Griffin et al.  Finally, the CIA published its timeline. The White House and State had decided early on that the intelligence community should take the fall for the failure of the video cover story. But it wasn't working. the CIA was defending itself.

The election out of the way, the President played his final card. He forced Petraeus's resignation. Requiring him to confess the affair and make it the basis for the resignation was just a turn of the screw. He sent Morello to Capitol Hill in Petraeus' place.

Obama is the filthiest, nastiest, most corrupt president since Nixon.

I have no problem regarding your or the Post's comments on Matthews character.