The American Spectator's founder [1], R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., was a guest on the American Family Association's "Today's Issues" broadcast this morning [2] to explain how the thesis of his recent book, "The Death of Liberalism [3]," was still valid despite the recent election results on the grounds that President Obama is not a liberal but rather a socialist.
In Tyrrell's view, Obama's win was just a demonstration of the fact that conservatism has big victories but then reaches a plateau before going on to even greater victories. So while the 2010 midterm elections were proof that America is a conservative nation, the 2012 election results were just a temporary plateau before the 2014 midterms, which will be another blowout win for conservatives.
But AFA's Tim Wildmon had a simpler explanation [4] of why President Obama was re-elected: because he is black.
