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“In what all say is an ‘historic’ election, the GOP is fielding its B team while the A team sits in the locker room. Since when does that win the big games?” The Wall Street Journal’s Dan Henninger asked last week.

Because, like Bella Swan, they are lost in a dark trance and can’t wake up. Because they have with astonishing hubris considered the 2012 election to be a slam-dunk, visualizing President Obama to be the second Jimmy Carter, whom they followed sensationally with Ronald Reagan in 1981.  And so they have been inclined to advance their weakest agents â€" Gingrich, Cain, Bachmann, just anybody â€" and appeal to angry birds, to the dissolute base and to those Dumpster-babies of archaic conservatism, redneck radio commentators.

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