John, at last count (that I checked), Romney was losing the popular vote by 3.4% and only won two states that McCain lost under the most adverse circumstances a Republican has seen in over forty years.

“But I am slightly suprised that no one did an After Action Review and concluded that at least rhetorically in terms of defending Big Business and Capital”

Yuu’re probably pretty much alone in that.

Given the levels of exageration and flights of fancy, which “opinion” copyright tends to engender, I am not suprised….But I am slightly suprised that no one did an After Action Review and concluded that at least rhetorically in terms of defending Big Business and Capital, the Romney result was a smashing sucess. Romney told some interesting truths vis a vis representation.

I think I agree in part with what you are saying. I didn’t vote for Romney because I was worried about giving that kind of mandate to such a pure technocratic “Right”. Understood in this way, I am certainly an independent.

That is you don’t really absolutely know what the “Right” is thinking until you see litigation. What does the “Right” mean anyways (outside of its permutations in copyright?) Typically a business or business lobby will be on the “Right”(i.e. be a defendant) and on the “Left” there will be a (plaintiff).

Sierra Club(a fine progressive institution) vs. GE (a fine capitalist firm).

The world is a complex place, but a great deal of clarity can come from this. Also a great deal of flip flopping on appeal depending who prevails!(lol)….but seriously, did you expect a word that can’t be more sophisticated than your right or left hand to explain all of politics?(too much “left” and “right” can be like saying you can count because you have 10 fingers).

On the other hand in a contest between Obama and Romney (Romney was somewhat on the Left in so far as it amounted to a suit against the incumbent), but more importantly Romney was on the “Right” as a sort of business firm lobbying for K street. Sure it is Crony Capitalism….but what seperates my theoretical views on policy from those of Romney? Romney’s views are already enabled(a huge virtue of “Crony Capitalism”), that is Romney’s policy points on energy actually represented real projects that businesses wanted to develop, but which were held back from the “Left”, by either a State Actor (EPA)…or a progressive interest group, i.e. “Sierra Club”. Key Example: Romney wanted to build the Keystone XXL pipeline. (which as it turns out was actually on the “Right” with both of these groups on the “Left”).

I’ve never understood this at all. This is not the sort of folks who built America. Give me the hardest working, most self-sufficient and driven immigrants, NOT the ones with the fanciest credentials. But then, the last five years or so have shown me time and time again that I’m radically out of step with the times…