Given Erick Erickson’s prior admission that he straight-up lied to his readers in order to play partisan cheerleader in the run-up to the 2012 presidential election, why does anyone give credence to anything he writes anymore? Here’s his latest example, posted on October 7:
Republicans are winning the shutdown fight, and Democrats know it…
The polls are shifting against the Democrats. They will continue to shift as more and more Americans realize that this fight is fundamentally about the letter they just received informing them of massive premium increases.
That analysis was, in a phrase, laughably wrong. Here’s CNN’s recap of what happened to Republicans.
To put it in pop culture terms, the best explanation for what happened that I’ve heard is that the Democrats were Michael Corleone, and the Republicans were Pat Geary.
"You can have my answer now, if you like. My final offer is this: nothing."
This can’t keep happening to conservative Americans without an eventual reckoning. That the GOP, as an organization, managed to breeze right past the presidential election without honestly re-evaluating their own strengths and weaknesses will keep coming back to bite them as long as they maintain their insularity.