Palin Won! Just Ask the Wingers!
And
Conservapedia and Other Ways To Avoid
The Biased Liberal Facts
Of Actual Earth

Well, scoping out Sullivan's roundup and the polls, we see that the only people who thought that Palin won seem to be the hard-core wingnuts.

Now, seeing what you want to see, and seeing what you expect to see, are among the most common features of human life. And they're downright rampant in political life. We all do it to at least some extent. Liberals do it a lot. But it seems to have become some kind of plague on the right. I know, I know--we're talking, for example, about Red Staters, Michelle Malkin and the like. But still...don't these people ever get tired of living in their own little universe of groupthink? I mean, what sane person could write the following:

Sarah Palin just field dressed Joe Biden like a moose. She was awesome. She connected with the people. She had fun. She was relaxed. She was awesome.

?

Consider the strange case of George W. Bush. The evidence of his awfulness would seem to be undeniable...and, accordingly, the rest of the world recognizes said awfulness. As do American independents. Don't the dead-enders ever think it's a significant fact that they, the most extreme members of Bush's own political party, are the only people on Earth who still think he's not the worst president in recent memory? See, that's the kind of thing such that, were it me, I'd be shamed into facing the facts, no matter how resistant I was.

But not our friends across the aisle!

These are people who can watch a Sarah Palin interview and come out believing that she is brilliant...brilliant! The next Ronald Reagan! (Er, not that that's really such a high bar...but still...)

Think about it. The press reports things they don't like, so they start their own conservative media, conservative cable channel, etc.. Wikipedia is somehow too liberal for them, so they start their own "Conservapedia" (featured article at the time of this writing--Mitt Romney!). A big slice of 'em don't like some of the central findings of modern science, so we get "creation science."

So, will this ever stop or will they just keep generating new institutions to insulate them from politically incorrect facts? To call this tendency unhealthy is, I think, rather an understatement.

So, anyway: in Wingoverse, appaerently the Sarah Palin counterpart won big!

Here on Actual Earth, Biden won the day.