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To: Reddy
Are you SERIOUS??

Infinitely more intelligent (and pertinent) question: are you?

You're seriously advancing the claim that there's no one (for instance) at FOX who'd appreciate being able to break the single most gargantuan political story in all of U.S. history? No one at the National Review -- which only endorsed Mittens (TWICE!!!), after all -- would voluntarily afford such mammoth revelations a sympathetic ear? RUSH LIMBAUGH and/or DRUDGE wouldn't willingly sell off significant portions of their respective immortal souls to be the ones to forevermore tar Herr Zero in each and every grade school history book written over the following millennium -- ?!?

I mean... seriously? THAT'S your absolute best -- what you're really, truly going with?

Take another shot at it. ;)

14 posted on 11/21/2012 9:17:26 AM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("If you're not fiscally AND socially conservative, you're not conservative!" - Jim Robinson, 9-1-10)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
You're seriously advancing the claim that there's no one (for instance) at FOX who'd appreciate being able to break the single most gargantuan political story in all of U.S. history? No one at the National Review -- which only endorsed Mittens (TWICE!!!), after all -- would voluntarily afford such mammoth revelations a sympathetic ear? RUSH LIMBAUGH and/or DRUDGE wouldn't willingly sell off significant portions of their respective immortal souls to be the ones to forevermore tar Herr Zero in each and every grade school history book written over the following millennium -- ?!?

Something I learned to great disappointment was that folks are on our side, fellow conservatives, are every bit as susceptible to falling for loopy conspiracy theories as our opponents on the left. Intelligence doesn't even really matter here and is not a decisive determining factor as to whether a person becomes a conspiracy theorists. I've known some extremely sharp people that believed in all sorts of zany conspiracies. I believe what happens is that human beings have a world view, and when an event(s) doesn't fit neatly into it some people begin blaming nefarious conspirators for altering what should have been.

Saying that. There is certainly nothing wrong with thinking out of the box. A good investigator may have all sorts of theories that don't pan out. Nothing wrong with speculating. The problem is when folks advance theories publicly that do not have reasonable evidence to back them up. Those same people then become emotionally invested in their argument and can become fanatical conspiracy theorists.

When elections are lost people blame voter fraud. The left does it, and the right does it too. Are there some instances of cheating? Sure, there always is some of that. But it just doesn't account for enough to have changed the overall election results. Blaming fraud will not help us one bit. We lost, people need to deal with it.

20 posted on 11/21/2012 11:03:14 AM PST by Longbow1969
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