or is revisionist history fun to write because all those pesky facts don't get in the way?

Detritus  11/30/12

There's an old joke about a salesman who trudged up four flights of stairs every week to reach the offices of his most obnoxious client. During one trip he was told that the client had died. Nevertheless he continued to march up those stairs every week. Finally the receptionist ask him why he kept coming back. "I told you, he's dead" "I know", said the salesman, "I just like hearing it".

That may explain the fascination that Democrats have with reading and listening to Republican writer and talkers as they attempt to explain away the pounding that Mitt Romney received on                 Nov 6, 2012. "Well yeah, but..." has been the most oft spoken intro since the Pirates beat the Yankees in 1960. (Just Google it.)

Example: "Well yeah, but the vote was really close." This lament is most often proffered by people who were so concerned about the Constitutional right to keep and bear arms, they missed the part about the electoral college. Popular votes don't mean squat. If they did, former President Gore would be presiding over the inauguration of his new library in Tennessee.  Barack Obama won 332 electoral votes out of 538. That's not close. That's not even Secretariat/Belmont Stakes close (more Googling).

Well yeah, but Obama only won because he "gave stuff" to blacks and Latins and poor, lazy people. The take-away here is that apparently black and Latinos and poor, lazy people weren't too lazy to vote. Actually, what President Obama gave to minorities was R-E-S-P-E-C- T. Find out what it means to me. It's not about social programs it's about a social conscience. If we can afford to rebuild Iraq and build Afghanistan we can afford to provide food stamps and a little healthcare to our own people. If the helium-heads on Fox and Friends think that unemployed textile workers and laid-off carpenters are fat and happy on welfare, they should talk to one. Americans want jobs but they need help. If compassion is pandering than indifference to suffering must be tough love. Good luck selling that to anyone but the Koch Bros.

Well yeah but Obama sat on the Patraeus story and lied about the killings in Benghazi.  Well, somebody smarter than me wrote that Benghazi is a tragedy looking for a scandal and Patraeus is a scandal looking for a tragedy. Seriously, No one but Fox and John McCain thinks that the administration should share every bit of intel as soon as they learn it. Ask yourself what Don Rumsfeld or Dick Cheney would have told you.  "Either way I don't give a damn what you think you're entitled to" God bless Col. Nathen Jessup. Benghazi was CIA start to finish and when things went south truth was probably the first casualty. Blaming Susan Rice for the early "explanation" as to what happened is like blaming the weatherman when it rains.

Petraeus is just a late night punchline. Nothing to see here.

So, my friends, as we revel in op-ed pieces like Stuart Stevens in today's Washington Post  http://tinyurl.com/bqv7pxp or Dan Henninger in the Wall Street Journal http://tinyurl.com/bp8e67m let us stop and give thanks that the GOP has apparently learned exactly nothing from "Decision 2012". Like Karl Rove they are are still disputing the call in Ohio.