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IN WHICH I REPEAT MYSELF: When the lefty talking-point assault hasn?t even convinced Barbara Walt?

By Glenn Reynolds

IN WHICH I REPEAT MYSELF:

When the lefty talking-point assault hasn’t even convinced Barbara Walters and The Economist is calling it “toxic,” it’s a pretty major fail. . . .

The biggest worry after the November elections was that a lot of people on the right would declare victory and go home. The shameless attempt to politicize the Tucson shootings and scapegoat people on the right has generated a huge amount of anger. Tea Party folks being who they are, I suspect this will mostly manifest itself as grunt-level political work in preparation for 2012 — precisely the opposite of what the scapegoaters were hoping for: Don’t get mad, get even, by making 2012 an even bigger shellacking than 2010.

Because I think this is the bottom line.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 12, 2011 (boomark / email).