America, you are an idiot.

You are a moocher, a zombie, soulless, mouth-breathing, ignorant, greedy, self-indulgent, envious, shallow and lazy.

That is a summation of “analysis” from conservative pundits and media figures – Cal Thomas, Ted Nugent, Bill O’Reilly, etc. – seeking to explain Mitt Romney’s emphatic defeat. They seem to have settled on a strategy of blaming the voters for not being smart enough or good enough to vote as they should have. Because America wasn’t smart enough or good enough, say these conservatives, it shredded the Constitution, bearhugged chaos, French kissed socialism and died.