#141 — Agreed. And guess what? Social conservatives agree with you about the importance of this–unlike John McCain and the rest of the “big tent” leaders.
Perhaps you didn’t understand. McCain believed and spoke as he did because some of what appears to be nonsense is the truth: we do affect our planet. (Not enough to dismantle civilisation, but that’s another story.) Unlike the left he advocated building nuke plants (less CO2) which is rational. Energy and properity are interlinked. Nothing and I mean NOTHING correlates to prosperity like energy.
His adding Palin was the worst possible blunder, refocusing the discussion from important and sane stuff (energy and foreign policy) he could win with to sheer irrelevancy (e.g. gay marriage) that is already a lost cause. Yeah it got a few extra votes from that so-called bible thumping “base” but wound up losing the swing vote, which is far bigger than the base wants to even think about.
