In his column today, the Washington Post​’s E.J. Dionne, Jr. asserts, “Obama will thus be the conservative in 2012, in the truest sense of that word.”

◼ This is a silly claim, of course, but also a revealing one. - Peter Wehner/Commentary Magazine

Old Rhetorical Tricks: When a liberal like Dionne insists that a liberal like Obama is the “true” conservative in the 2012 race, it shows the broad appeal of conservatism. It also shows the enormous damage liberalism has inflicted on itself when no one, not even Obama, wants to run on what he is. There is a reason reactionary liberalism in America has been discredited. It has been a failure in almost every significant way....

◼ 2012 Offers Divided U.S. a Momentous Choice - E.J. Dionne, Jr./Real Clear Politics