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To: TimF who wrote (889327)	9/21/2015 2:48:01 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575403

I agree with your post, but on global warming, I think there is a very serious threat from the Warmist perspective in that it translates to spending massive amounts of money we don't have. OTOH, the so-called "deniers" are just trying to shout more loudly to correct mis-information. The problem here is that there is almost a "default" action of spending money. We have a situation where essentially every Republican candidate -- the so-called "deniers" -- stood on stage last week and said yeah, there's global warming but we can't fix it. The truth is we don't know whether there is any man-made global warming and if it isn't man-made, we just haven't had much luck in changing the weather.

To: TimF who wrote (889327)	9/23/2015 10:51:56 PM
From: RMF	Respond to of 1575403

Yeah, I'm sure that many still run with good intentions but the primary system just Forces them to skew their positions to extremes. That killed Romney because he could never come back from being so far right. Having a "backbone" as a presidential candidate is pretty much a death sentence for a campaign. You're thing about actually believing in something because all the people surrounding you believe in it is what I think happened to Romney. He had all these people around him saying he was right and was going to win easily that he never even considered trying to appeal to the people that might have other agendas. We saw that in action on election night with Karl Rove refusing to accept that Romney had lost Ohio or whatever.