Whenever you hear about a psychic being arrested, the natural question is: Why didn’t she see that coming? Conservatives who raise dire alarms about what will happen in Barack Obama’s second term face a similar problem. They need him to lose so their predictions will not be exposed as products of raging paranoia.

Rick Santorum says the defeat of Obama is imperative “so that future generations do not say about America, ‘When men were free.'” After Obama was heard telling Russian President Dmitry Medvedev he would have “more flexibility” on missile defense after he’s re-elected, House Speaker John Boehner accused Obama of planning dangerous “unilateral concessions.”