Different Direction?

In his concession speech, Mitt Romney said he was sorry that he would not be able to “lead the country in a different direction”.  One has to wonder what Romney meant by different.  To begin with, his policies mirrored those of the Bush 43 administration that resulted in the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. He amplified his intentions to repeat the past by surrounding himself with a majority of advisors who were alumni of the Bush 43 administration and were responsible for the advice that resulted in the “great recession”.  He was the defacto leader of a political party that did everything one could imagine to alienate a significant bloc of voters and, like republicans before him, said nothing or did nothing to dispel mis-characterizations made by his surrogates.  Then, to make matters worse, just as Bush 43 used lies and misinformation to urge Congress to vote to send the country into war, Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan managed to break all records for numbers of lies told during a political campaign or a nomination acceptance speech.  All together, the Romney characterization of a different direction should be best labeled as a U-turn back to whence we have come.  Perhaps the most interesting set of facts following the 2012 election is the discovery that the ten states with the most educated people all voted for Barack Obama while the ten states with the least educated people all voted for Romney.  Bush 43 said he wanted to be known as the “education President”.  Somehow the results of the 2012 election point out the degree he, and the Republican party failed to meet this goal.  If the new direction is back to the world of Archie Bunker, Mitt Romney achieved his goal without having to serve as President of the United States.