(from 2007) Republican Governors Who Wilt (Globalwarming Hoax)

spectator.org ^ | July 23, 2007 | Paul Chesser

[BarnacleCenturion]

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford have largely conservative support (a few say they are moderates). Regardless, why have both signed deals with an environmental advocacy group to administer their respective states' programs to confront global warming?

 

The two Republican executives have followed the example of more liberal governors by inviting the nonprofit Center for Climate Strategies to advise their climate change action groups. The states' respective panels consist of dozens of "stakeholders" who will consider greenhouse gas-reducing measures. The groups will approve most of those action items, then pass them on to state lawmakers while environmentalists' hope that the recommendations turn into laws.

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Meanwhile Sanford said he has been personally touched by global warming, as he explained in his executive order:

For the last twenty years of my life, I have seen the ever-so-gradual effects of rising ocean levels at our farm in Beaufort County. In some cases, it's been watching pine trees die in that fragile zone between uplands and salt marsh; in other cases it's meant finding roots in areas that would never grow a tree, given the current salt water levels. While I understand very clearly the debate on whether or not these events come as a result of man's activity -- or just the effects of nature taking its course - I've had other personal experiences that strongly suggest to me that man is having an impact on the environment. The last time I was in Beijing on a trade trip, we happened to be there on a bad smog day. When I went outside I could see no more than a quarter of a mile and my eyes watered.

[rabscuttle385]

So many Sanford hit pieces, so little time.

[BarnacleCenturion]

Quoting from the article..

In general conservatives earn their stripes by being able to set aside the experiential and anecdotal, and instead make decisions based on actual data and evidence. Pawlenty and Sanford have bought the “human cause is incontrovertible” side of the global warming debate despite legitimate scientific challenges to the prevailing wisdom.

Fine. But is it too much to ask that the chosen solution-provider prove that his plans will actually do anything about the alleged problem?

[exist]

Tim Pawlenty is about as conservative as Richard Simmons' fashion sense.

As for global warming extremist Mark Sanford, I still don't know why Sanford wants a socialist President to succeed. Would Reagan have wanted a socialist President to succeed? I don't know what conservative wants a socialist President to succeed. Don't make a lot of sense.

[BarnacleCenturion]

Ping!

[pissant]

They are in good company, with McStain, Romeny, Huckabee, Rudy, Arnold, Fred, etc etc...

[BarnacleCenturion]

That list is not 100% accurate.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

SMOG does not equal ANTHROPOMORPHIC GLOBAL WARMING.

That is an entirely disingenuous argument.

Smog is SMOG. To argue “global warming is true becauase of smog”

Gets you SQUARE on my ‘tard list.

[pissant]

True. It needs about 50 more prominent GOP names added.

[BarnacleCenturion]

Yes. And 1, maybe 2 subtracted.

[pissant]

No. All are global warming alarminsts

[SoConPubbie]

Pissant,

Care to back that up about Fred with some links?

[SoConPubbie]

So many Sanford hit pieces, so little time.

That's pretty hypocritical coming from you rabscuttle385, and I say that as a supporter of your efforts to shed light on McCain and other RINOs.

If there is something not factual about the articles being posted about Sanford, then point it out, but leave the hyperbole to others, it is far beneath you.

[BarnacleCenturion]

“Care to back that up about Fred with some links?”

Not possible. Fred copy/pasted “Romeny’s” platform on this issue.

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx !

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[rabscuttle385]

That's pretty hypocritical coming from you rabscuttle385, and I say that as a supporter of your efforts to shed light on McCain and other RINOs.

Maybe it is. Or maybe I forgot a /sarc tag.

Or maybe, just maybe, at this point, all the indiscretions are oozing out from under the doors of even the most conservative Republican politicians, including Sanford and even Paul.

Wait, that's the key word right there: politician.

[BarnacleCenturion]

Right on. McCain is not the only one who has great respect for Al Gore.

[pissant]

He cosponsored the largest (to date) global warming boondoggle legislation nightmare.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1924826/posts?page=138#138

[SoConPubbie]

Thanks, that is what I was looking for.

[BarnacleCenturion]

Ok, I was wrong about Fred. Only one name to subtract then.