It seems apparent that too many of my fellow conservatives have bought into the spin that simply because Boone Pickens is attempting to promote his plan for wind energy on a nonpartisan basis, he is, somehow, an enemy of conservatives. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, if financial support is any measure, Boone Pickens is among the top—if not THE top financial supporter of Republican candidates and conservative causes. http://www.newsmeat.com/billionaire_political_donations/T_Boone_Pickens.php Pickens advocates additional domestic drilling...but he is also actively pursuing alternative energy sources—and he is attempting to do so in a nonpartisan way (seemingly an impossible task.)
I urge my fellow conservatives to study Pickens’ proposals and also to study the man, himself. I believe that such research will show that 80-year-old T. Boone Pickens is a conservative patriot who is trying his darnedest to help keep America great.
Nothing new...The telegraph begot the telephone, the telephone begot the ....etc, etc....
The difference is that going for black gold takes a specialized group of folks.
Anytime I hear such over-the-top spin as that, I immediately hide the children and my wallet.
Let's be honest, Pickens may be a conservative patriot. But first and foremost, he's an entrepreneur. He wants to make money. I say go for it. But be honest about your business partners and the nature of the scheme. This entire prairie wind power boondoggle has all the trappings of a Clancy novel: Radical Green endorsement, Pelosi financial investment, federal government subsidies, aquifer water rights, and the confiscation of private property through eminent domain. And I'm sure there are many more hidden players involved in this Pelosi/Pickens novel.
I won't judge Pickens. I need to learn more about this. But that said, when others (such as you) extol the man as a paragon of virtue, I see nothing but red flags snapping crisply in the breeze.