Congratulations. You are far wiser than the scorched earth conservatives here who are probably at least twice your age.
I figured it out, they aren’t scorched Earth Republicans, they are a part of doomsday cult, who think that they can escape the tribulation that would result from an Obama re-election, by either escaping in a space ship or hunkering down in some wilderness shelter, off the grid. Ron Paul is their Marshall Applegate.