Crush Kerry looks at how the media is already to inaugurate the CW on why Kerry lost - it will be because the Republicans are so vicious and Clelandized him and Democrats are so inherently good that they didn't fight back hard enough. CK has a good roundup of all the liberals wringing their hands over how mean the Republicans are.

(I predicted this two months ago)

They will then use their own CW to argue that Bush doesn't really have a mandate to do anything in the second term since he only won because the GOP attacked Kerry so unfairly. I can see it now.