Anyone involved in politics ends up on hundreds of mailing lists, both email and snail-mail. Recently I received an email from John McCain asking me to take part in a poll. This proves that he did not read my response to his last email for support. Had he read it, he would have deleted my name for sure. As for the poll, I usually just delete these because they are worded in such a way to swing the results toward a previously intended direction. The questions will have multiple choice questions that do not even come close to my position, so they are always useless. This one was a perfect example. Here is one of the questions:

Do you believe in limited measures to control climate change or sweeping legislation with the process supporting other priorities of the Administration?

The only choices were between limited measures, sweeping legislation and undecided. I do not believe in sweeping or limited measures to control climate change because I believe that man-made global warming and climate change are propaganda efforts by the hard left to fool us into surrendering our freedoms for our own good. When the Soviet Union and other worker’s Utopias were collapsing socialists and other collectivists needed another vehicle and found it in the radical pseudoscience of global warming.

I guess Mr. McCain, like other eco-nuts, believes that global warming is a fact that no thinking person could question, so one must either be for sweeping or limited action or else undecided about what action to take. It seems action is a done deal in their minds. And they think our minds are closed.

The next time you read that polls show that this or that liberal issue is popular ask yourself who they questioned, what the questions were, and what answers were possible. Every poll out there makes certain assumptions, and you know what happens when you assume—we look like a nation of asses.