Posted on 01/02/2011 6:21:09 PM PST by rabscuttle385
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Dig long enough and just about every Republican has a green skeleton in their closet. Many of them have their last presidential nominee, Arizona Sen. John McCain, a longtime cap-and-trade enthusiast, to thank for it.
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"I support a reasonable cap-and-trade system," [Pawlenty] said. "I think it'd be good for the federal government to take that up rather than have states take it up as clusters of regions."
Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, appealed to a New Hampshire audience in October 2007 on moral grounds by saying he backed a cap-and-trade system to reduce greenhouse gases and faulted the Senate for its unsuccessful efforts to pass legislation.
Even Sarah Palin has a YouTube moment. Just days after McCain picked her as his running mate, Palin told ABC News she believes human activities "certainly can be contributing to the issue of global warming, climate change" and that "we've got to do something about it, and we have to make sure that we're doing all we can to cut down on pollution."
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Romney worked for two years as Massachusetts governor to cap greenhouse gases from power plants as part of a regional pact.
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"I believe that climate change is occurring – the reduction in the size of global ice caps is hard to ignore," Romney wrote in his 2010 book "No Apologies: The Case for American Greatness." "I also believe that human activity is a contributing factor."
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich may have the hardest job explaining himself thanks to a 2008 TV commercial sponsored by Gore's Repower America campaign. Gingrich and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) sit on a couch outside the Capitol and declare that while they don't often agree on issues, "we do agree our country must take action to address climate change."
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Newt and Nancy sitting in a tree (couch).....
Fool. You're already alienating this young voter.
I heard Norm Coleman on Foxnews today saying that he wants to do something about carbon emissions. At first, I was nonplussed, but then he got specific: He wants to let nuclear power off the leash. And he pointed the finger at the Dems for blocking it. That’s a start, at least.
You left out what Gov. Palin said.
“Palin – who has since referred to global warming
as “snake oil science”
You won’t find many people speaking up for pollution.
The thing of it is, the modern power plants now put out almost no pollution at all. So what did they do? They moved the bar. Now its not pollution they fret about, since there isn’t any, its “carbon”. Which is to say, plant food. Since everything we ever do emits plant food, the mobsters are going to figure a way to get a payday everytime you do anything that emits CO2. Like breathe.
A few people fell for it, either thanks to the round-the-clock propaganda. And a few fell for it because they were figuring how to get a piece of the action. And a few were smart enough to have never fallen for it (probably they were secret freepers).
Re #5:
So let me get this straight. If a politician says something one day and says something different the next it’s okay? Or does that rule apply only to Sarah Palin?
Bwahahahahahaha!
Now that'd be progressive eh!
Great question.
The whole frikkin lot of them stink on immigration too.
Please enlighten us, dear FRiend, where Gov. Palin
said something one day and something different the next.
The article says (and the source is DNC and RINOs)
“Just days after McCain picked her as his running mate, Palin told ABC News she believes human activities
“certainly can be contributing to the issue of global warming, climate change” and that “we’ve got to do
something about it, and we have to make sure that
we’re doing all we can to cut down on pollution.”
Notice Gov. Palin did NOT contradict what I posted
and what she said later. Notice she said “CAN BE
CONTRIBUTING” and not “is the cause of”. So Gov.Palin
was accurate and did not contradict herself.
So why did you say she did?
The Left and RINOS will have to learn about Sarah Palin the way they learned about the Gipper--the hard way.
To all
All this proves is for too long we have let ourselves be governed by idiots!
Please enlighten us, dear FRiend, where Gov. Palin
said something one day and something different the next.
The article says (and the source is DNC and RINOs)
“Just days after McCain picked her as his running mate, Palin told ABC News she believes human activities
“certainly can be contributing to the issue of global warming, climate change” and that “we’ve got to do
something about it, and we have to make sure that
we’re doing all we can to cut down on pollution.”
Notice Gov. Palin did NOT contradict what I posted
and what she said later. Notice she said “CAN BE
CONTRIBUTING” and not “is the cause of”. So Gov.Palin
was accurate and did not contradict herself.
So why did you say she did?
Name one politician that hasn’t? The question is, are they having a sincere change of mind, or are the two quotes taken out of context and appear to contradict when they actually don’t, or are they just blowing with the wind to get elected.
I don’t doubt Palin’s sincerity at all, she has a history of great integrity, the others listed, well they have a long history of blowing with the wind, especially mittens.
Because I based it on what you wrote in #5. Which really begs the question, "Why can't Diogenesis write a factual sentence?"
This is a happy development for me, it makes it easier to choose who to give money to.
Anyone that supported this or any Obamacare type laws are off my donation list.
Reagan never had a “liberal fling”. Back when Reagan was a Democrat the Dems were not the party of the left.
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