RedState.com is seeing red.

Erick Erickson over at RedState.com objects to the recent CNN.com article which includes RedState and Erickson personally on its list of arch-conservatives who are in denial over Obama's reelection.  Indeed, Erickson shows clearly that he and his blog have not only not denied the reelection, but that he has explicitly claimed there was no fraud, and that Obama won the election "fair and square".  Nevertheless, Erickson's reading of the CNN article is superficial at best.  The CNN article does discuss actual deniers (those who claim the election was rigged, unfair, unconstitutional, etc.).  But there is a deeper sense of denial--denial not merely of the fact of Obama's reelection, but denial as to the reason for his reelection.

The problem is that Erickson, though he accepts the reelection itself, denies the reason for Obama's reelection.  Claiming that conservatives did not communicate their principles clearly is not supported by the evidence: ask Todd Akin.