ROMNEY WINS; GINGRICH LOSES

Even BBC saw the obvious tonight.  It was Romney at his best.  I'm not ready for a Romney presidency, I disagree with a lot of what he says, but it did my heart good to see him put some holes in Gingrich's sails.  Later, on the Lawrence O'Donnell show, listening to Elizabeth Warren spoke more of her just plain good sense, clearly articulated with her characteristic enthusiasm.  She contrasted what Romney is saying about his business and the small business owners.

For once, Obama was only slightly criticized as most of the reciprocal spitball throwing was  between Romney and Gingrich with Santorum getting an occasional pat top his own back while lobbing a few 'facts' back at the others.

Wolf Blitzer did an excellent job moderating without being a part of a team.  He actually kept them on task and the questions from the audience were good ones.  I felt sorry for the woman who said she was out of a job and, thus, unable to pay for health insurance and asked for suggestions.  None of the gentlemen offered anything useful other than sympathy and implying they would fix her problem if the one speaking at the time got elected.  To the Palestinian-American who asked whether they felt any support o the Palestinians,, all he got was a justification for why America will support Israel forever.

REAL CLASS WARFARE

Paul Krugman, an economist who recently wrote a NY Times article on our current economy and what is happening to the Upper, middle and lower classes in America, showed the statistics that middle class income has grown from 1979 to 2005 at 21% while the top 100th of 1% has grown at 480%.  For his complete article, click here.

The process by which the politicians on the right are calling what is going on in Obama's jobs bill 'class warfare' is what therapists know as 'projection'.  In other words, when what you see in yourself in not acceptable to you, you project it as being in someone else.  Wikipedia defines it in a slightly more elaborated fashion.  Click here.

For definitions for other defense mechanisms, click here.There are 12 of them you might wish to glance at as you will recognize several others being used freely in a variety of contexts.  While I believe that more of them may be seen in the rigid 'right', no one is immune to their occasional use.