As a conservative, there's one thing I've never understood about conservatives: their propensity to see the glass as half empty.  The health care battle that President Obama and the Democrats won on Sunday night is a case in point.  It's not that conservatives should be Pollyannas.  Reality is reality, and as the late Scott Peck made a thesis in his book, The Road Less Traveled, the closer to reality one is, the saner one is.  By that definition, Obama, Pelosi and Reid need to call their doctors' offices.After Sunday night's loss, it's natural that conservatives should feel let down.  Losing doesn't typically buoy anyone.  But before conservatives start to write off the nation, as to some extent the otherwise insightful Mark Steyn has done, before concluding that freedom is lost, before conservatives make bulk purchases of one-way tickets to New Zealand or campaign for Alaska's secession, a little perspective is in order.  Through the long health...(Read Full Post)