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Highlight: triumph of numbers over narrative. Bad news for you clowns, but good news for truth. And it was worth the price of admission to watch Republicans struggle with what Nate Silver called "a epistemological watershed." It is also funny that the very thing that you losers mock, Obama's community organizing past, is what slam-dunked all your private corporate money. Indeed, it was hilarious that all that smart money was seduced by the certitudes of buffoons like Larry Kudlow or Hugh Hewitt or Karl Rove, rather than able to see the facts on the ground.
Bottom line is that the days of punditry having an influence--talking to insiders, judging the enthusiasm of crowds, using "feel" to judge the "momentum"--is over. ..
Suddenly, 2013 is upon us. New year, similar issues, familiar players. But before we set our sights on the battles and controversies to come, let's cast our gaze backwards to the year that was. 2012 promised to be a politically consequential year, and it lived up to its billing, albeit with generally disappointing outcomes from a conservative perspective. The following is my personal take on the most significant political peaks and valleys from the past calendar year. Let's begin with the good stuff:
(3) Mitt Romney selects Paul Ryan as his running mate. Many conservatives viewed Mitt Romney's presidential...
This was the highlight of the election.