The shocked liberals who are desperately seeking conspiracy theories to explain how Bush could have won should also be here to watch and listen. They might understand where those 59 million people come from, and how they manage to stumble through life without minders. They would be astounded, I believe, at how literate and informed this band of brothers and sisters are. I’ve dined with teachers and doctors, with NASA scientists, and octogenarians who write columns for local papers. Dinner conversations revolve around such simplistic themes as whether Sen. Arlen Specter was correct in his classification of Judge Bork’s view...
