Yes, it is possible for two different sides of one question both to be wrong at one time. Take the case of Jeb Bush and the movement conservative purists who want no part of him or the rest of his family, what with Phyllis Schafly, et al., labeling him one in the long line of Establishment losers who have been leading the party to certain defeat.

But if anyone knows about losers, it ought to be Schafly, who backed the biggest GOP loser in history — the man who lost in a blowout to Lyndon B. Johnson, carrying only six states outside of the one that he lived in. That election of 1964 opened the door to the Great Society, the byword for the mistaken and decent intentions with which roads to the Dark Side are paved. Schlafly gave Barry Goldwater his slogan — “A Choice, not an Echo.” People chose not to take the choice, deflating the claims made since by her cohort that real conservatives win all the time.