So Many Wingnuts, So Little Time

At least anti-christ ranks at the bottom.

The results of Public Policy Polling's national conspiracy theory poll were posted yesterday, and never have the wingnuts said so much by answering yes, no, or maybe. While plenty of Democrats believed some crazy stuff, the trophy for believing the unbelievable goes to the Republicans in the poll.

At the top of the list, we have yet another point of reference that makes me miss Intrade.

37% of voters believe global warming is a hoax, 51% do not. Republicans say global warming is a hoax by a 58-25 margin, Democrats disagree 11-77, and Independents are more split at  41-51. 61% of Romney voters believe global warming is a hoax.

Fifty-eight percent of Republicans believe global warming is a hoax. This is astounding. They're not saying, oh, it's happening but it's natural, or it's the sun, or whatever. They're saying that a world-wide consensus of top scientists are conspiring to tell us something that is obviously happening is not, just so they can have the black helicopters come take their SUVs. Or something.

Intrade had a whole host of climate markets, from monthly, annual, and multi-annual global temperature anomalies, to last named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, to minimum arctic sea ice extent, and much more. The volume was pretty low in those markets, and it was often hard to find people to bet the conspiracy side of things, but a bet's a bet, and I was surprised at how few takers there are.

I was trying to round up more of these hoaxters to put their money where their conspiracy minded mouths are. Maybe if Intrade does manage to recover from their recent problems and return, I'll be able to coax some of these ignorant fools into putting a few bucks on their theory.

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The wingnuttery continues!

13% of voters think Barack Obama is the anti-Christ, including 22% of Romney voters.

This is more proof of ThomasD's theory that fundamentalists have a problem with parables. That is, if you think there is any allegory in Revelations at all. Frankly, I think it's the ravings of a nut case who was just trying to scare ignorant people into becoming Christians. Pretty impressive ravings, though, considering that even in this modern age, 13% of Americans not only believe it, but think the President is one of the main characters in this never ending fairy tale.

And, finally, proof that although they tend to deny they supported the war now, or that the war was a good idea, or whatever, we find that, if asked in a poll where no one will know who they are, the Republican love for W hasn't really diminished at all. I'm guessing that a great many of the people who supported the $6.2 trillion Iraq war will go to their graves thinking they were right.

Voters are split 44%-45% on whether Bush intentionally misled about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. 72% of Democrats think Bush lied about WMDs, Independents agree 48-45, just 13% of Republicans think so.

Considering the other crazy shit that Republicans revealed about themselves in this poll, I'm surprised that 13% of Republicans think Bush lied us into Iraq. They must be RINOs.