In today's "The Washington Times," Greg Pierce in his "Inside Politics" column, quoted a couple news analysts saying before the Tuesday's election in which Barack Obama beat Senator John McCain by 6 points, that America is still a "center-right nation."  Jon Meacham, the liberal "Newsweek" editor in a story labeled 'America the Conservative' warned that "[s]hould Obama win, he will have to govern a nation that is more instinctively conservative than it is liberal."

The editor of "The New Republic," John B. Judis, took great umbrage over Mr. Meacham's remarks on his website.  And Mr. Judis criticized the comments of a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Peter Wehner, for saying:  "America remains, in the main, a center-right nation."  

Mr. Judis said: "These guys -- and the others who are counseling Barack Obama and the Democrats to 'go slow' -- couldn't be more wrong.  They are looking at Obama's election through the prism of Jimmy Carter's win in 1976 and Bill Clinton's victory in 1992.  Both Carter and Clinton did misjudge the mood of the country.  They tried unsuccessfully to govern a country from the center-left that was moving to the right (in Carter's case) or that was only just beginning to move leftward (in Clinton's case,) and were rebuked by the voters.

"But Obama is taking office under dramatically different circumstances.  His election is the culmination of a Democratic realignment that began in the '90's, was held in abeyance by September 11, and had resumed in the 2006 election.... Unlike Carter and Clinton, Obama will be taking office with the wind at his back rather than in his face."

Mr. Judis' remarks are sweet to the ears of conservatives.  His remarks are indicative as to what liberals always do:  overreach.  The fact that Obama had a win of tsunami proportions in the left-wing state of California, but yet his liberal allies could not manage to defeat Proposition 8 which banned homosexual "marriages" in California after spending tens of millions of dollars to defeat it, shows that the American people, even Californians, are center-right and always will be.