Some good reads today

Here are some links. As Peggy Noonan says, there is so much to savor. That's a much better word than "gloat", isn't it? But it's true; we worked very hard for this victory, and we prayed very, very hard, and while we need to be humbly thankful, we can take some time to enjoy this, before getting back to work.

So, enjoy! Hat tip to Real Clear Politics and Drudge for the links.

From Peggy Noonan:

"[T]he biggest loser was the mainstream media, the famous MSM, the initials that became popular in this election cycle. Every time the big networks and big broadsheet national newspapers tried to pull off a bit of pro-liberal mischief--CBS and the fabricated Bush National Guard documents, the New York Times and bombgate, CBS's "60 Minutes" attempting to coordinate the breaking of bombgate on the Sunday before the election--the yeomen of the blogosphere and AM radio and the Internet took them down.

From an article on how the early exit polls led to early euphoria, and then later despair, for the Kerry team:

"I can't take this. I have to get a drink," said one shaken Edwards adviser, watching CNN call states for Bush in the increasingly tense lobby bar.

From an article by Hugh Hewitt (one of my favorite bloggers!):

THE WORST LEGACY of the '60s was its Vietnam complex. The opposition to the war in Iraq--even after 9/11, even after inspections of the vast munitions dump that was Saddam's wasteland--was as much about legitimizing the huge mistakes of 1974 and 1975 as it was about concern of a new "quagmire."