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Pat suffers from the same self-inflating disease as JFKerry. He believes that no one else has considered a particular issue, so he goes on about it in great detail thinking that people just don't understand.

You should not confuse the ability to contemplate to be the same as brilliance, indeed the lack of hesitation to contemplate the absurd or unacceptable is the opposite of brilliant.

For example, the pros of killing everyone over the age of 75 could take hours to fully contemplate, the spread sheets could be masterfully done, the deep intricacies of how it could send a financial spider web of benefits throughout the economy could take years to fully understand. And yet, I find those that dismiss the thought within seconds to be the truly brilliant ones.

I don't see your analogy between Pat and Kerry. Kerry is a puppet for a higher order, and babbles making no points.

Pat on the other hand brought the 1990 GOP convention to it's feet with his clash of culture speech. He said what many knew, but wouldn't or couldn't express.

And Pat is still at it, but sadly has developed a defeatist position in confronting Islamists.

Your analogy on 75+ is extreme, and I'm sure Pat would nix it in a nano second. Strategies in dealing with barbarians, stick or carrot, is quite another thing.