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Autopsies. Scott Horton writes to the NYT public editor about its Palin propagandist. Woman who said president-elect palled around with terrorists calls her McCain campaign critics who describe her as ignorant "jerks." McCain campaign strategist Steve Schmidt complains about constant leaks from within the McCain campaign. "Looking forward, Schmidt sees the need for a wholesale reinvention of the party. 'The party in the Northeast is all but extinct; the party on the West Coast is all but extinct; the party has lost the mid south states—Virginia, North Carolina—and the party is in deep trouble in the Rocky Mountain West, and there has to be a message and a vision that is compelling to people in order for them to come back and to give consideration to the Republican Party again.'” Schmidt: "Can I also add to the thought about where we’ll get the ideas of the party? There is a new generation—there are leaders that have emerged from this campaign that are worth paying attention to. Gov. Romney did a fantastic job in this campaign and is certainly an important voice on the national strange. Newt Gingrich is someone that the party in my view must pay very close attention to because he is an idea champion for the future and has many great ideas about how to define 21st century conservatism and how to define the Republican Party and to establish an intellectual base on which a political movement can be rebuilt."
Colbert King: "Now consider the U.S. Census Bureau's population projections. If the GOP does not become more inclusive and open to new ideas, it could take on the image (not the ideology) of F.W. De Klerk's now disbanded National Party of South Africa. If that happens, Obama can thank narrow-minded Republican strategists."