After all the talk of the Romney campaign being caught by surprise at their loss, I just had to find this:

The aide said that guys like me were “in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who “believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” … “That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

It turns out this is attributed to Karl Rove. Funny how being an actor has turned against him, as was so aptly shown on election night.

Bottom line: The world really does work the way he said it didn’t. That the Romney campaign enveloped themselves in the Karl Rove created bubble of faith-based beliefs completely explains their surprise when the truth of their loss became all too apparent.

You do not get to deny reality. God gave us our senses to use, not to ignore. All Magical thinking will do is put us in an Emperor’s new clothes. Granted, the horny, instinctual male in me would love to see certain women in an Emperor’s new clothes, but as a member of the Reality Based community I know it is never going to happen.

Damn, that makes me sad.