Even More Required Reading.

In the Army we had something called an 'AAR', or "after action report," where a mission was reviewed after-the-fact to see what worked, what didn't, and what to do to improve. P. J. O'Rourke has drafted (as only he can) the GOP's 'AAR' concerning the most recent election.

Read it. Learn it. Live it. Unless you want 2010 and 2012 to look just like 2008.

UPDATE: Via Instapundit, Christopher Hitchens provides a dose of reality for the Left:

Those who think that they have just voted to legalize Utopia (and I hardly exaggerate when I say this; have you been reading the moist and trusting comments of our commentariat?) are preparing for a disillusionment that I very much doubt they will blame on themselves.