It was about Michael Moore…moore (sorry) or less.
So think the heavy thinkers at Real Clear Politics, musing on David Brooks’s excellent column in today’s NYT:
Republicans across the country went to the polls on Tuesday with an anger of their own. The increased turnout wasn’t driven by some right-wing bigotry toward gays (as Brooks points out) but I believe a bitterness toward people like Michael Moore. Middle America was simply pissed off at listening to a fat schlub like Michael Moore and his ilk on the far left tell them how oppressive, greedy, militaristic, and imperialistic we are as a country and what a liar and a moron our President is.
[…]The Democrats embrace of radical left over the past 24 months – from Howard Dean through Michael Moore – infuriated enough Republicans across the country, but especially in a place like Ohio, to overwhelm the Democratic turnout machine and give George W. Bush another four years in the White House.
I think that is just about right.