Good Bye Turd Blossom or Perhaps Another Good Thing to Come Out of the Election

http://nymag.com/news/frank-rich/gop-denial-2012-11/

Frank Rich has an excellent column about the blindness of the Republicans leading up to the election.  The whole time that the Romney campaign or their surrogates went on about the internal polls showing a Romney landslide, I would either worry that they knew something I didn't, or think they were trying to create the illusion that he was winning, so that if they manage to steal or suppress enough voters, they could then chant I told you so, and would give them cover if they were able to drag any election dispute into court.   It honestly never occurred to me that they might actually believe what they were saying.  Rove and Co. have built up such a reputation for genius, albeit evil genius, that I assume that everything done or said is a cynical manipulation for amassing more wealth and power.  In other words, it never occurred to me that theyactually believe any of the shit that comes out of their mouths.  Maybe the so called Wise Men of the Republican party really don't believe in evolution or science, or what we in the reality based community, regard as objective truth.  Prior to the election, I was a terrible weak kneed tremble chin, who had to check Nate Silver, oh about every time I possibly could, to be soothed by his well reasoned analysis of all the polls, but I was not running a campaign.  How could the Romney people not know that they were in deep, deep trouble?  They not only convinced themselves that he would win the electoral college and would surely win the popular vote.  Not all the ballots have been counted in some very blue states, so Romney's percentage of the vote is likely to go much further down, and imagine what the totals would have been if the Northeast hadn't been crippled by Hurricane Sandy.  It is hard to think about schleping to the polls if you haven't had heat, hot water or housing.  Romney's percentage is creeping downward to the 47% level.  How fitting is that?  So much for the genius of Karl Rove.