This is craziness and people like Bennett and other sell out journalists should pack their bags to a retirement community. How do you lose a culture war when you´re on the right side of things. how do we even know we lost with the possibility of the election being stolen. How could Obama win when republicans retained most of their house seats? Is there really that many ticket splitters in this country? I seriously doubt it.

There´s some percentage of blame to go to the two senate candidates with foot in mouth disease but it´s not an indictment of conservatism in general.

We´re not fighting the culture war on the right terms or the right people explaining it.Liberals drive people emotionally which is easier to do in a sound bite than a conservative principle.

It´s crazy to say we can fix the fiscal mess without addressing the culture problems. the first thing that has to go is welfare because it´s the feeding tube for future liberal voters and government workers who manage the programs.

It´s a huge lie to blame the Bush tax cuts for the fiscal mess. Only 9-10% of the deficit over the past 10 years
is tax cut related,the rest has been pure spending.

This also assumes the tax cuts did nothing to boost the economy. if that´s the case why did Obama push for a payroll tax cut?

.... Those who didn´t believe Obama was qualified to be president in 2008 were labeled as racists. Playing the ´race card´ worked, as it did with OJ Simpson.
.... Those who didn´t believe Obama was doing the job in 2012 were labeled homophobes, women-haters and evil rich white men. The name calling worked again, and ´proof´ of liberal ignorance is firmly established.

The dumbing down of Americans has been successful.

It´s not a matter of culture, Bill, it´s a matter of character: another battle is lost and our Generals want to pack it in and go home. It takes character to win, show some!

I, is that not the point Bennett made? Cultural issues have to be addressed and articulated early on, not dismissed as the ranting of bitter clingers. Paul Ryan did articulate this point in early stump speeches, but our severely conservative nominee could not and did not articulate concerns about the cultural chasms.

Not going to happen.

Ah yes, the great Bill Bennett! The guy who backed Michelle Bachman, Herman Cain, even Newt and finally Rick Santorum! Well, with a track record like HIS, why wouldn´t we listen to his pontificating? Bennett is certain he knows anything and everything about the "culture war" WE lost! No Bill, AMERICA has lost the culture war, not Republicans. Spare me the lectures on "culture" and stick to listening to your fawning audience call you "Doctor". Go away..

First of all, we haven´t lost anything but a battle, yet. Second of all, all this means is that we have to take the gloves off.

We have to either:

A. Fight as dirty and as thoroughly as they do in corrupt political practices and out-stuff the ballot-boxes, or...

B. Use our Constitutional measures to remove a corrupt enemy of said Constitution.

The Demonrat party is the party of fear (death and destruction too), and fear wins every time it is tried. How do you fight fear with a dummed down generation?

Posters here either didn´t read the article or didn´t understand it. Bennett is correct. We don´t teach capitalism in the schools. We have permitted our institutions of higher learning to be 100% overtaken by the left. Millennials have been spoon-fed the glories of socialism to the point where more than half don´t even think they like capitalism.

And the rules of capitalism, as they appear to a young person trying to get started in a job today, are ruthless. Many jobs now are contract - so no benefits. Or they keep you on until the day before you would qualify for benefits. Or they fire you just before you would qualify for unemployment benefits. Or they work you 28 hours per week because, at 30 hours, they would have to offer you medical insurance...but don´t try to go schedule a second job, because they need you available any hours of the day or night they might want you working.

These aren´t the starter jobs baby-boomers encountered. And the businesses are just trying to stay in business in hard times. But it confirms what the leftist professors were teaching.