Now I get it

So the "big carbon emitters" grand plan is coming together then.

When the Liberals talk about their *base* they mean those folks who seldom read, never write, who get their news and information from channel 10 and the test pattern and who fall for every spurious claim that gets pushed at them by the various right wing and religious charlatans with an axe to grind.

These folks don't get science and certainly don't believe that climate change is a threat.

No siree that would be a conspiracy by those elite scientists all directed against we ordinary folk.

And so the *bogus* science that is funded and peddled by the big carbon emitters and their proxies is all geared at reinforcing the uninformed views of these folks in the Liberal *base*. And its all designed to get them to revolt and put some heat on their local MP's.

Which is apparently what is happening.

Does anyone recall Joseph Goebbels and his propaganda technique which is based on the principle that a lie - if audacious enough and repeated enough times - will be believed by the *base*?

And a large number of the Liberal MP's - 35 to be precise - have fallen for it.

They are now taking the concerns of their *base* to mean that they should roll their "moderate" leader and install a more acceptable one who will appeal to the *base*.

Tony Abbot will be perfect for them - go Tone.