"Clowns to the left of me... "

Mark Steyn's got his 2004 (and, apparently, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012) post-election column out. A select gem: "H. L. Mencken said that no one ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American people. Well, George Soros, Barbra Streisand and a lot of their friends just did: The Kerry campaign and its supporters -- MoveOn.org, Rock The Vote, etc. -- were awash in bazillions of dollars, and what have they got to show for it? In this election, the plebs were more mature than the elites: They understood that war is never cost-free and that you don't run away because of a couple of setbacks; they did not accept that one jailhouse scandal should determine America's national security interest; they rejected the childish caricature of their president and paranoid ravings about Halliburton; they declined to have their vote rocked by Bruce Springsteen or any other pop culture poser." Haul yourself on over to thr Sun Times site and check it out. (Yeh, the post title is a citation of Stealers Wheel's "Stuck in the Middle With You". And when you think about the core values reflected in this past election, it's pretty much MOR vs Loony Left, so a fuller citation would work as well: "Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right, here I am, Stuck in the middle with you.")