Reality bites!

It’s rather amusing to see the Republicans falling all over themselves trying to come to grips with the reality of the drubbing they took in the recent election. Their pundits were proclaiming that Romney would win big right up to the last minute (think of Karl Rove) and when Romney didn’t win they tried to put the blame on the media, the liberals, the common folk (victims), and everyone else except themselves.

A recent example of how the GOP doesn’t see reality like real people do is in a recent interview on Fox News of Thomas Ricks, a journalist and writer of many books on the military including “Fiasco: The Military Adventure in Iraq.” The Fox interviewer was stunned when Ricks took Fox News to task for blowing up the “controversy” over the Benghazi incident that killed four Americans. How dare Ricks slam Fox News! See it here.

Others see the same thing I do and that is if you only watch Fox News and listen to the likes of Rush and Glenn and other wing nuts, you will loose touch with reality. One person, Stephen Carter Escondido, wrote his opinion in the San Diego North County Times recently and said,

“Their delusions are probably best characterized by Romney pollster Neil Newhouse’s declaration that, “We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.”

In the election aftermath, Republicans continue to deny reality. They blame a hurricane for their humiliating defeat. They say that the “uninformed” elected Obama. They fail to acknowledge that Mitt Romney was a terrible candidate with an extremist running mate. They won’t admit that the GOP’s message is one that promises an authoritarian state run by and for a religious plutocracy, a state in which the middle class no long exists.”

One could say that it doesn’t matter that the GOP can’t deal with reality but as long as some of them are in power in our government, we have to be concerned. You only have to look at Senator John McCain to see how folks that live in la-la land can impact us. Think about it.