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Columnist Mona Charen: “Ideally, if Republicans had been able to field a candidate not inhibited by his own record of endorsing something like Obamacare in Massachusetts (though the comparison was overdone), they might have been better able to convince voters that re-electing Barack Obama meant higher health insurance premiums, more dropped coverage and bureaucratic incompetence. Going forward, Republicans should be assembling clips of Obama promising that his health reform would not add ‘one dime’ to the deficit, would bring down premiums by an average of $2,500 and would solve the problem of the uninsured. The disillusioned will have new reasons to listen. They even may be willing to give ‘progressivism’ a failing grade.”