Posted on 03/31/2008 2:49:21 PM PDT by Delacon
On the eve of the New Hampshire primary, while other Republicans were talking about taxes, the economy or immigration, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., was talking about the environment.
"I will clean up the planet," he told a group of Concord voters. "I will make global warming a priority."
A little later, a chunk of snow fell from a nearby rooftop and landed near the senator, who didn't skip a beat: "That's that climate change right there."
McCain is betting that his record as the rare Republican addressing global warming will bolster his appeal to Democrats and independents. It's a tricky balance. He has tried to find common ground in an area where there is little to be had.
While big business has been open to some environmental pushes, seeing potential new markets and technologies to tap, most still resist new regulations and mandates. Green groups, on the other hand, tend to see the situation as too dire for any half-measures.
McCain senior policy adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin says he is trying to focus on the issue while still being pragmatic.
"He wants to have something that he will be able to implement (as president)," Holtz-Eakin said. "His view of the lay of the land is that (his) cap-and-trade (proposal) has political viability."
Myron Ebell, director of energy and global warming policy for the free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute, says that is likely. No other candidate has a better shot of getting his plan enacted.
"The Republicans in Congress will not be able to oppose a President McCain. The leadership in both Houses will follow him," Ebell said. "If it is a President Obama or Clinton, Republicans will have every reason in the world to say, 'We're gonna fight this.' "
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Yeah. It's called "Spring."
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A very important part of the reason why I say he will likely lose in November, although his chances vis a vie Obama are far better than they would be against Clinton.
> the rare Republican addressing global warming will bolster his appeal to Democrats and independents
No doubt - and the second part of the reason...
And this in a nutshell is why McCain shouldn’t be president.
“The Republicans in Congress will not be able to oppose a President McCain. The leadership in both Houses will follow him,” Ebell said. “If it is a President Obama or Clinton, Republicans will have every reason in the world to say, ‘We’re gonna fight this.’ “
It’s like trying to beat the Democrats by promising Government programs. They can always outbid you. Tax cuts. They can’t outbid us on that. Freedom from regulation for small business. They can’t outbid us on that. School vouchers. They can’t outbid us on that. Right to freedom of speech, freedom to exercise your religion, freedom to bear arms . . . they won’t outbid us on that. Etc.
The global warming thing is a bunch of poppycock. And a loser since the people that think it’s poppycock won’t run to McCain and the people that think it’s true will run to the Dems who will nationalize everything to get rid of emissions.
Mitch McConnell will be my president, assuming he stays right on the issues, no matter who is in the White House.
I don’t mind doing my part, as long as it is my decision. I use cfls where they make sense and I don’t where it doesn’t. I don’t think some idiot should tell me what make sense and what doesn’t.
Electrical shock treatments are out of the question, but I say give the looney some lithium, that might cure his deluded grandiosity.
“He wants to have something that he will be able to implement (as president),” Holtz-Eakin said. “His view of the lay of the land is that (his) cap-and-trade (proposal) has political viability.”
Wide open about cap and trade here. McCain’s becoming an Obama.
Days ago McCain complains Obama and Clinton are not talking about “climate changes” (i.e., cap an trade) enough. Now his peeps are floating the idea only a Republican president could get this through.
This tells us that McCain is desperately seeking Wall Street money and tacitly arguing it should go to him rather than the Dems.
Stupid is, as stupid does......stupid.
I am trying. I really am.
I read his foreign policy speech and found a couple of things I thought were good and tried to ignore the portions about things like global warming and working within the international framework (i.e. - let the UN dictate or at least obstruct us).
I gave him the benefit of the doubt on immigration when he said that he would go with enforcement before addressing the illegals still resident in the country.
I believe him when he says he now supports the tax cuts he opposed in the past.
But this global warming hogwash coupled with his wholly repugnant assault on the constitution by way of “campaign finance reform” is making it really, really, really hard for me to keep it up.
The only thing that keeps me going is that the thought of an Obama or Clinton presidency coupled with a leftist legislature will spell disaster for the nation. A McCain presidency might put some roadblocks on the leftist agenda (especially given the amazingly incompetent leadership that Reid, Pelosi, et. al. have shown). But when he talks about this global warming tripe I begin to think a McCain presidency might be more of a speed bump than a roadblock. An awful lot will hinge on his VP choice.
This will be the story of the next four years. One terrible left-wing initiative after another adopted by a President who does not understand what he is doing, Dems eager to extend the jackboot one step further, and 10-20 craven RINOs in the senate. We will lurch further to the left under McCain than we do under either Obama or HRC because McCain will bring the RINO's with him.
That's why it's such a close call between McCain and the dems. One surrenders to Al Qaeda. The other destroys the homefront. I'm not sure who does more damage.
McCain will crash the economy to please his left wing buddies. He’s a republican Jimmy Carter.
Legislating a false market, that he and others in the know will get rich on....
Senator Lugar has already turned one of his farms into Hard Walnut trees, apparently they are most efficient scrubbers of CO 2. He's registered them on the Chicago Climate Exchange, just waiting for cap and trade.
Thats the Political Viability
“A little later, a chunk of snow fell from a nearby rooftop and landed near the senator, who didn’t skip a beat: “That’s that climate change right there.””
You mean winter to spring? Yes, although “we” normal folk call it a season change.
Click on POGW graphic for full GW rundown
New!!: Dr. John Ray's
GREENIE WATCH
The Great Global Warming Swindle Video - back on the net!! (click here)
Ping me if you find one I've missed.
The ease with which McCain became a dupe of the “global warming” hoaxers is a primary reason I consider the man unfit to serve as President. I mean, how stupid can you get?
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