Posted on 01/29/2008 4:04:55 PM PST by pissant
After hitting it in most every appearance he made in New Hampshire and Michigan, John McCain now rarely brings up the topic of global warming.
McCain's strong views on addressing climate change play well among independents and Democrats, but most of the GOP base either disagrees with him about the issue or just has little interest in it.
He didn't raise it often in South Carolina and, at a town hall meeting in West Palm Beach today, chose instead to focus his remarks on the economy and national security.
South Carolina, of course, is a conservative state and even the independents who took part in the GOP primary there were likely well right of center. And the Florida primary is open to only Republicans.
Asked about why he raised it in some places but not others, McCain admitted that the decision was driven by the nature of his audience.
"I try to bring it up in areas that I think that it is of great import to people," he said, taking questions from reporters after his event in West Palm Beach. "I talked about it a lot in New Hampshire, as you know, because it was a very important issue. I really only have time for so many issues, but it always comes up in the Q and A one way or another, as you know."
An honest answer, but a far cry from what he said when he was asked in Michigan why he kept bringing the matter up there despite its downside with his own party.
"You've got to do what you know is right," McCain said then, at a similar press availability after an event in Ypsilanti on the day of the primary.
Reminded that it could cause him to lose, McCain shot back: "There's a lot worse things than losing in life."
Today, though, the righteous McCain was replaced with the honest and then sarcastic McCain.
After explaining why he hadn't spotlighted climate change, McCain promised to do so again soon.
"So next town hall meeting, I’ll bring it up so you won’t criticize me and you won’t have anything to write about," McCain said, offering his usual half-joking, half-serious cutting wit.
What’s really scary is the fact that he’s moved to the right for the primaries. In the general he’ll end up somewhere left of Hillary. Course the whole rest of the field will end up in Hillary territory too.
It was -25 this morning but has warmed to -17. Tonight it will be -15 to -35, which is about as close as the weatherman cares to guess anymore. Just doing our part to stop global warming.
That is why I am so dismayed about Hunter’s candidacy. Here is a guy who has not had to budge one inch to the right, was already a proven Reaganite, and the GOP goes with a pack of flip flopping posers instead. It turns my stomach.
We started the day at almost 50 degrees and are expecting lows of 5 to 10 with wind chills of -10 to -15 tonight.
I can tell when it reaches -35 because all my tires are flat and the neighbor up the hill burns coal. Any warmer and the tires are fine and it is too warm to burn coal.
What a nightmare.
I get the yahoo email alerts for Duncan Hunter every day and I intend to keep his name out there for the next 4 years.
McCain and the drive-by media are going to find out that Rush is not irrelevant after all. The long knives are coming out just like they did for the mccain-kennedy bill, only this time it’s for mccain’s campaign to get the nomination.
Well, it is going to be a very bad 4 years, I reckon twixt now and then.
As a somewhat seasoned Alaskan winter experiencer of 35 years I have begun to distinguish between -20 (getting there) and -40 (cold) and -60 (really cold). It has to do with what you have to do to deal with it. Coldest I saw was at Coldfoot -85 although they say the coldest ever in Alaska is -79. -85 is definitely an alien environment.
For years of educating the sheep about the dangers of voting for “electability”, Charisma, and voting according to media polls. After 4 years of a democrat administration they just might be willing to learn.
So, first he had to claim that he wasn’t involved in an amnesty. Now he has to make us forget about McCain-Feingold. And he also has to make us believe that just a few weeks ago he was stumping for a carbon tax to stop global warming.
Boy, you sure have to forgot a lot of things in order to believe John McCain. Reminds me of the Clinton years when we had to believe that everybody involved in every story was lying in order to believe that the Clintons were telling the truth. Boy did that take a lot of energy.
McCain said, offering his usual half-joking, half-serious cutting wit.
Should have been written:
McCain said, offering his usual half-joking, half-serious half-wit logic.
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