Romney is a good, intelligent, extraordinarily generous man who put on a great fight. But he didn't understand the country or the people he sought to lead, and that is why he lost.

Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs.

Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will.

Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.

Romney has adopted almost every position conservatives want their candidate to espouse: He's pro-life, he wants to repeal ObamaCare, he wants to cut taxes and cut the federal budget, and he wants an unapologetic foreign policy dedicated to the proposition that this too will be the American century.

Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.