Hello bob,   
      
   On Fri 2012-Aug-24 06:20, BOB KLAHN (1:123/140) wrote to RICHARD WEBB:   
      
   BK>>  Ron Paul's problem is, he appeals more to libertarians than   
   BK>> Republicans. He appeals more to Tea Baggers than long time   
   BK>>  republicans.   
      
    RW> But there you have my only quibble.  Many true libertarians   
    RW> I know aren't teabaggers, because they understand that the   
    RW> teabaggers  aren't true libertarians, they've been co-opted   
      
   BK>  All true, but I was talking about who Ron Paul appeals to, not  the   
   BK> beliefs of Libertarians and Tea Baggers.   
      
   Okay.  Just wanted to make sure libertarians aren't tarred   
   wtih the tea party brush.  Big difference!   
      
      
    RW> That is a very apt description of Romney.  i have enough   
    RW> problems voting for ROmney (or any mormon for that matter)   
    RW> let alone his attitudes.   
    RW> I might vote for a catholic, a jew, many other folks, but I   
    RW> don't trust that church's leadership.   
      
   BK>  The fact that I have heard so much, but can't get an honest  answer   
   BK> to any of it disturbes me. Other than that, the clear  cults I   
   BK> dispise are Scientology and Moonyism. I would not vote  for anyone   
   BK> beloinging to either of those.   
      
   Right, some of what I know about the mormon church was   
   passed down from my dad's mother's side of the family, who   
   resided in western ILlinois near the town of Nauvoo before   
   they got there.  tHe main beef the locals had against them   
   was predatory business practices.  Had they dealt fairly   
   with their "gentile' neighbors the hue and cry against them   
   in western Illinois wouldn't have been raised.   
   Brigand Young demonstrated that it was part of their culture years later with   
   the MOuntain MEadows massacre.   
      
    RW> There are parts of mormonism I can actually relate to, i.e.   
    RW> their beliefs that disaster preparedness is first and   
    RW> foremost an individual responsibility, but some of the rest   
    RW> ...   
      
   BK>  Disaster preparedness is both an individual and a national   
   BK>  responsibility. Individual is necessary for the short term,    
   BK> national for the long term. And a level for everything in   
   BK>  between.   
      
   Again we would agree. IT's where the two meet in the middle. i tell folks   
   prepare for 7 days of "on your own" after a   
   disaster.   
      
      
   Regards,   
              Richard   
   ... Love is being owned by a rottweiler!   
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