Crazies and Conspiracies to the Left and to the Right

Sometimes I think I am the last sane person interested in politics. After the President was soundly beaten in the debate Wednesday night, and make no mistake by any measurement that matters he was soundly beaten, we heard complaints from the left that something was wrong with Obama. Jim Lehrer was a terrible moderator and allowed Romney to walk all over him. And many more complaints. The problem is that it is all silly. Look Mitt Romney may not be your candidate but no can deny that he is an intelligent man. He prepared for the debate, he had a good grasp of the facts, or at least the facts he was going to lay claim to and he presented them effectively. Democrats would be much better served to tipping the cap to the Governor and moving forward, every complaint, every utterance of sour grapes just keeps the focus on the President's performance. Every tweet I see where a person from the left states that Romney will not have two weeks to prepare for a real crisis in the Presidency is silly. The rules of the debate were set, Romney took advantage of them and cleaned the President's clock. Move on.

Which with the release of the October jobs report this morning brings us to the paranoids on the right. I am no economist and as I watched Morning Joe this morning the panel tried to make sense of the numbers as they presented relatively low job growth but unemployment fell to 7.8 percent. This number is significant because it is the first time it has been below eight percent in the President's tenure. At one point a tweet from Jack Welch was read stating, apparently not tongue in cheek, that the numbers were cooked by the Chicago boys. Really? A couple of points here. Do you think that if the numbers could be cooked they would not have been doing so all along? More importantly if you think the numbers could be cooked by an administration do you not think they would have added more jobs as well so that there were no obvious questions about the numbers.

The fact is that the polarization of the country is so bad that both sides constantly think they are getting hosed. As I heard someone say compromising with someone you accuse of unethical behavior three hours before you enter into negotiations is a difficult thing. And compromise and realism is what is needed.

Joe Scarborough said he can always tell which side has won the day by the hate and rage in his twitter feed, ergo the side that has lost the day, their loonies always are angriest and filled with the most conspiracy theories.

I guarantee you later today Fox News will be spending a great deal of time questioning the validity of these numbers. Anyone with sense would know the best thing Romney could do would be to applaud the numbers and move on to his plan to increase the improvement. Nobody likes a whiner and complaining about the numbers in a jobs report makes you look small and like you are rooting against the country.

People on both sides need to grow up and behave like they were taught in kindergarten.