The media are full of divisiveness. For some, the sky is falling because Romney will never move into the White House. Others are elated that Obama won a second term. The country seems to be divided right down the middle.

Obama didn’t meet his goals of getting down unemployment, and according to Romney, he is 9 million jobs short of his goal. The economy is still sputtering. Given these results, Obama had no business winning the election. I think Obama didn’t win because of his record, I think Obama won because of Romney’s character and personality.

If the GOP had delivered a statesman like Colin Powell, I would  have gladly voted Republican. Romney, to me, didn’t run because he had a passion for the country or the people. Romney, to me, looked like he was on a power trip and he was running for president to round out his resume.

That just wasn’t enough for me. Emptiness came through in his so-called plans and policies, which simply didn’t add up for me. I still can’t figure out how you can spend $2 trillion more on the military and bring down expenses. Everything else combined does not make up $2 trillion. The math, to me, always seemed ludicrous.

This morning I heard a conservative talking head say this:

Clearly, when you cut spending by buying less fighter jets or hiring less park rangers, you hold back  money that goes into the economy and you bring along a recession.

Talking about cutting fighter jets and park rangers in the same breath shows how out of touch the conservative side of our country is. The current state-of-the-art fighter jet, the F-22, costs $420 million each. A park ranger makes $12k to $20k a year, if that. The entire budget of the National Park Service for 2011 was $3.14 billion with 21,501 employees.

This math says that you could completely wipe out the entire National Park Service, lay off all 21,501 employees, and save $3.14 billion, which would pay for the cost of EIGHT F-22 jets.

Talking about jets and park rangers in the same sentence is ludicrous.

And here is something even more ridiculous: We have taken delivery of the final F-22 jet. The program cost $79 billion. Even though we have had these jets since, 2005, not a single combat mission has been flown by an F-22, ever. Not in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, anywhere. John McCain, a jet fighter veteran who knows his business, says that the entire program is wasted. He says that the plane has no mission in today’s military. It’s an air-to-air combat plane. Until al Qaeda starts flying fighter planes, there won’t be any mission either.

The entire federal government subsidy to PBS in 2012 was $444 million. One big bird, one F-22, pays for the entire PBS program for a year. One plane for Big Bird, Mr. Romney.

The  Republican establishment, publicly announcing cutting park rangers and Big Bird, but increasing the military spending, exposes a vast, unconscionable, ludicrous lack of sense of reality.

They smoked themselves out.

That is why we voted the way we did.