This stuff is good for our side, which is why it has gone down the memory hole.

The only people who have been consistent on this have been Libertarians, and the occasional liberal like Greenwald. An American was assassinated by the US Government, without an arrest, a charge, a trial, a conviction or an appeal. Think about that. And then tell me how to square it with the Constitution. I don't care if he was a terrorist, he was first a US citizen.

And our side has meekly gone along. But I find that with....almost everything.

Smart Diplomacy is confusing! Especially, it seems, for its practicioners.

Hillary should get out now, while the getting's good. Because this isn't going to end well, and Obama certainly won't step up and own it - unless Hillary can wrap it round his neck in her gracious stepping-down remarks.

These people are rank amateurs with an insanely-elevated sense of their own moral and intellectual superiority. Libya and Egypt have gone from relatively stable to dangerously unstable, and we have gained precisely nothing in the process. In fact, less than nothing, because Egypt has reactivated their meddling in Israel.

Heckuva job, Bammy!

We will never reach those two. It's a waste of time to try, and is the reason why becoming Democrat-lite is the dumbest move the GOP could make.

We need to talk to people where they are (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram), in language that is compelling - telling them Obama is a socialist (which is true) is not meaningful to anybody under about 40. Telling them how and why lower taxes create societal wealth is far more useful.

The problem is, many career GOP politicans don't know how and why lower taxes create societal wealth.

Real, actual energy projects, privately-funded and producing a product people want today. What a concept. Hoorah, and great post.

So if Benghazi was 'a terribly sad tragedy', during which four Americans died needlessly due to cover-up after blunder after inaction after vacillation, what in God's name was Watergate?

These people have no moral compass - everything is politics, and politics is everything.

Fixing the deficit isn't the objective. Fixing the 'problem' of a widening income gap is the objective.

Which is also called redistribution; a central plank of socialism.

Which is the objective.

He was an absolute buffoon in the Sandy aftermath, a complete cretin. A dishonorable, myopic little clown, who deserves our disdain - which is precisely whay he will get from me, going forward.

Who cares? They have Obamaphones and Government Cheese. They elected a wannabe Robin Hood, who will make both the rich and poor poorer, in the name of fraternite and egalite (but sans very much liberte, sadly).

I contend that Barack Obama will be a punch line by 2015. But the damage will be done.

Hamas doesn't win by winning, they win by surviving. They can't beat Israel militarily; they're not trying to. They are creating a narrative for gullible first world liberals, with considerable success it must be noted. They are playing a long game aimed at delegitimizing Israel, with the objective being her destruction - we all look at this through a rational prism where Hamas and Israel pursue their affairs through enlightened self-interest. But Hamas isn't bothered by all that crybaby malarkey; they want Israel destroyed, literally. Once you acknowledge that, the stupidity and vapidity of all the hand-wringing, bedwetting diplomacy becomes crytsal clear. Luckily, Israel gets this.

This is how Rome fell.

It's pretty reassuring that the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency thinks you can outwit all our national security agencies using Dropbox.

He didn't apologize because he thinks what he said was wrong, he's apologized because he got called out. Nobody who would say such a thing in the first place should be able to walk it back just by mouthing the words 'sorry'.

I'm looking at how forgiving everybody was toward Todd Akin (an amateur and idiot, who cost us 2 Senate seats). That's right: not fogiving at all. And rightfully so.

I think the navel-gazing is premature, and likely to result in a knee-jerk response that may not work out well in the long term.

What just happened? The election turned into a base election, and their base is bigger than ours. On balance, the late turn toward Romney,  and the enthusiasm we all felt, was clearly not shared by indies. Why? Because he was successfully defined by the Obama ad blitz, and despite what we (the base) thought, he wasn't able to redefine himself.

It turns out that there are still people who can be convinced that the economy is a trainwreck, we're in debt up to our ears, and there are no jobs because Mitt Romney is rich.

This is why the campaign for 2016 starts today - it is the job of every conservative/libertarian public figure to explain why smaller government and fewer regualtions promote entrepreneurialism and lead to jobs and economic prosperity. And that's why it's a problem, because many elected conservatives could not explain this simple concept, because they either don't believe it, or they don't understand it.

I think the inclusion of Sarah Palin on the ticket in 2008 was the key to McCain's overpreformace relative to his own and his campaign's strengths. Ryan is a rock star among highly knowledgable conservatives, but to many he looked like a young kid, probably out of his league (he isn't and wasn't).

If our total vote went down four years into this trainwreck, we need to recalibrate where the money goes - to have spent a billion dollars trying to drag Obama down with TV ads, in a world of Tivo and DVR is utter madness. Particularly if it also meant we couldn't find a way of finding our voters and getting them to effin' vote.

Obama's great success in 2008 was getting a bazillion supporters to give him their email address and 5 bucks.

He used that information well, in places where it mattered.

In short, our campaign was fought poorly, even though Romney as a candidate did pretty well.

Plus, we need to go to war with the media. Seriously.

Jay-Z is exempt, because shut up, they explained.

InTrade is used mostly by non-Americans - it's hard to buy a contract on there with a US credit card. When I lived in London, InTrade was what the financial traders used for a bit of fun with sporting events. If their bets are based on UK coverage of the election, I'm surprised Obama's not an even bigger favorite. I think it's bunk, personally - I think a Romney win is about an 85% probability.