Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 05/12/2008 3:00:52 PM PDT by davidtalker
McCain Breaks with Bush on Climate Change
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) speaks to employees about alternative energy sources at the Vestas Wind Technology plant in Portland, Oregon May 12, 2008. (Reuters)
Updated 4:40 p.m. By Juliet Eilperin PORTLAND, Ore. -- Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) outlined his proposal to address climate change this morning, offering plans that would go beyond President Bush's but fall short of the bipartisan bill headed for a Senate vote next month.
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Just wanted you to know I was wrong. You "haters" (I am a hater now too) are correct. No self respecting conservative can vote for this guy. I have always known of the litany of offenses he's committed. I have never considered him a movement conservative. However, I felt it imperative in time of war to go the lesser of evils route. But, that's over. The guy doesn't want my vote. He insists on forcing me to abandon my principles. I can't do it.
I just got finished with the Washington Post story with McCain in Oregon hugging on Dem Gov. Ted Kulongoski. Talking about limiting my freedoms by cutting down on carbon emissions. All based on global warming junk science. I knew he was embarking on this "green" tour. However, mandatory emission cuts and hugging on a lib Gov. Forget it Senator. You just lost me. You have no use for us. We have no use for you. Got help us. We are so screwed.
BTW. I admire the guy. I respect his heroism. I have interviewed him numerous times. Nothing personal. He just isn't my idea of what a GOP Presidential candidate is supposed to represent. Over and out.
Good for you. Glad to have you on board!
McCain lost me with his past 7 years of antics..
I’m with you. The global warming bullsh!t he was spewing today has completely erased any chance of my voting for him.
It’s not about hating John McCain. I just don’t see the point in voting to encourage the GOP even further leftward.
At least he said that we need to expand nuclear energy.
Every time I make that point with the hippies who populate my town, they freak.
By the time we're done with him, there probably won't be a conservative movement left to speak of.
McCain actually believes the tripe about human global warming (and if true it’s mostly because of meat-eating, so will McCain give up steak?). He’s lost me for years, and I await his VP choice to judge the ticket.
Sadly, McCain has now given me a compelling reason to ‘stay home’. I won’t won’t Dem, but I may not pull any lever for POTUS come November. I’ll still vote in state and local elections.
So, basically, I'm about a half-step behind you.
McCain is going to make Woody Allen look like John Wayne before this is over.
I agree. It's not about hate. It's about disgust and a sense that McCain will quickly throw us under the bus.
Have you watched him during interviews? He sits there with an almost psychotic smile and then giggles after every answer. I really think the guy is unbalanced.
Enjoy 8 years of Hilabama and 20 to 30 years of a liberal activist supreme court.
This cinched it for me. I was on the fence.. Now there is no way I can vote for this guy. none..
The only one that demonstrates an excessive ego and pure, unadulterated vanity is Sen. Juan McCain!
What does this say about a nation who offers up three ninnyhammers to the voters?
One of them belongs in a orange jump suit. Another is truly an America hater and the third one is in the mid-stages of dementia.
Gorebal Warming indeed!
Build both as Nationalized projects and then sell to the market.
Having McCain as the only choice for conservatives is bizarre. I guess that was the purpose of the liberal media campaign against Romney from the start.
I watched a coupl of years ago when Hillary and Russ Feingold dragged McCain to the Exit Glacier near Seward, Alaska on the Pacific coast and convinced him he was in ANWR, the wasteland in the farthest NE corner of the state. The poor guy may mean well, but he is just not on top of things and it will likely show during the hard parts of the coming campaign.
Ain't it funny that the media doesn't mention the price of oil when Clinton signed the liberal bill making ANWR a national Monument which effectively told OPEC that we won't harvest our own fruit, even at the expense of our own economy and maybe our future.
BTW. I admire the guy. I respect his heroism. I have interviewed him numerous times. Nothing personal. He just isn’t my idea of what a GOP Presidential candidate is supposed to represent. Over and out.
So we will get either Hillary or Obama, correct?
Can you give a senario that is plausible that someone other than a Rep can defeat the Dem nominee? I don’t think that is possible with the likes of Barr, Keyes, Baldwin, Nader, etc. etc. So in my book it’s either McCain or the Dem and our best hope is for down ticket support to hold either of them in line once elected.
Thanks but I’ll take McCain of the Dems for two reasons:
1] The men and women of our Military
2] The next SCOTUS nominees
If McCain loses, the GOP will claim it was because McCain wasn’t far enough left. If he wins, they will claim that the nation wants the GOP to move left. It is a lose-lose for conservatives.
And the whole nation suffers under Obama.
If you can’t vote for McCain, at least show up and vote for your GOP senator and representative.
Lindsay Graham?
Voinovich?
Either senator from Maine?
This stops NOW.
If McCain can get enough Sierra Club voters and La Raza voters to put him in office, I wish him well. At this rate, he's going to get about 10 conservative votes nation-wide.
Our choices are absolutely the worst choices of presidential candidates in all of human history. Not just US history.
Welcome to the dark side. We have cookies.
Yep, you'd think McCain would appreciate the stakes involved.
So who’s our viable alternative?
Put me down as another life long Republican, and a physicist, who cannot support a man foolish enough, or power hungry enough, to sign on to the GW hoax just to get elected.
He has lost me for good!
Don’t stay home. Go and vote for your GOP congress critters. If the ‘Rats take a 60 seat majority in the Senate and the WH, there is no part of the Constitution that will be safe. Obam will certainly not veto anything that will come through and you can GUARANTEE that higher taxes, higher fuel prices, a weaker military, kowtowing to tin pot dictators and terrorists, and socialized medicine will be just the start.
Then we got nothing. We’re not even bringing a knife to a gunfight. It’s more a limp noodle to what should have been a barrel of fish.
For me it was McCain-Feingold. Then the incessant pushing to close the “Gunshow Loophole”. Then his actions as leader of the “Gang of 14” further reinforced my views. Then his remarks that Alito was too conservative. Now this. I believe in stewardship & conservation, but don’t abide environmentalists. As standard bearer and leader of the GOP, he could easily do more damage than a dem president.
I strongly disagree! There will always be a "conservative movement"! McCain's ego will likely completely destroy the Republican Party as the "conservative party"! Hopefully, in a relatively few years, the conservative movement will emerge once more as a viable political party (and they won't be called the GOP). Likely though, it will be many years of liberal rule regardless of what party is in power in Washington.
And Obama will look so marxist that you’ll scammer right back to McCain....I HATE all this global warming BS...but I guess a mighty high percentage of Americans now believe it....the public schools keep teaching this drivel.....
McCain will be fine...we just need to slap him around like we did on immigration.
Why is this surprising?
Can you name any other GOP Presidential candidate that has considered switching to the Democratic Party?
Pretty close already on your first goal.
U.S. Electric Power Industry Net Generation, 2006 
EIA, Electric Power Annual
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epa/epa_sum.html
I suggest that you review them as well. Also, I suggest that you review all of the SCOTUS candidate he voted for including Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, and Sam Alito (two people Ann Coulter didn’t support). I will also suggest you check to see that historically the Senate has voted to confirm the President’s nominee.In fact, Ruth Baader Meinhoff Ginsberg got only 2 nay votes.
Can we take him out at the Convention somehow?
Any ideas?
Anybody?
That’s one possibility. Another is that conservatives will come to their senses and leave the RINOs to choke in the dust. Maybe I’m being naive, but I hope not.
It’s always been a question of how badly we want to lose once McCain secured enough delegates.
I’ll still vote for McCain in hopes that he won’t hurt me as bad as Obama plans to.
There is no viable alternative to getting screwed, though.
I despise that man so much - worse than Hillary.
McCain will be elected because Israel will not allow Iran to obtain Nuclear Weapons and Israel will hit Iran sometime before the election. This will scare hell out of the American people and make them realize our National Security has to be # 1.
This whole fu***ng country has deserted me. I don’t give a rat’s tuckus about any of it any more, and neither should any of you readers. This is the most serious breach with reality that any of us could imagine, and it’s really all over; no kidding.
(though, unlike you, I do not admire McCain.)
Klimate Change is the “2” of the 1-2 punch McCain is set to deliver to America if he is elected. The “1” is, of course, Amnesty. Amnesty will ensconce the socialists in power permanently then Klimate Change legislation will permanently throttle the economy. After that Socialized Medicine is just putting a pillow on the sick man’s face.
I disagree. The GOP will know it's because he couldn't motivate the base.
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