Romney Record Is ‘Flexible’ on Global Warming

Willard Mitt Romney these days could not be more explicit about abandoning President Barack Obama's carbon-dioxide restrictions.

"Irresponsibly," Romney wrote in an Aug. 28 op-ed for Foster's Daily Democrat in New Hampshire, the Environmental Protection Agency "declared carbon dioxide, the same carbon dioxide that humans exhale, to be a 'pollutant' that poses risks to human health."

He also observed: "Congress had the good sense not to compound our economic challenges by imposing cap-and-trade's extraordinary costs on the American people."

Romney's website offers this carbon-friendly promise: "Mitt Romney will eliminate the regulations promulgated in pursuit of the Obama administration's costly and ineffective anti-carbon agenda."

Well, surprise, surprise! Unlike this conservative aria, Romney sang a totally different tune as Massachusetts' liberal Republican governor.

A recently exposed, online dossier believed by some to be from the 2008 John McCain campaign, offers 200 pages of Romney's self-contradictions, vacillations and head scratchers. His views on so-called global warming are just the tip of this nonmelting iceberg of confusion.

The dossier includes Ryan Sager's New York Sun story of April 20, 2007, in which Romney embraces a 1940s fuel source. "Liquefied coal, gosh," Romney said. "Hitler during the Second World War — I guess because he was concerned about losing his oil — liquefied coal. That technology is still there."

Less bizarre were Romney's 2003 comments to religious leaders. According to the Los Angeles Times on March 25, 2007, Romney said he was "terrified" about "warming" and found it "quite alarming."

In July 2003, Romney wrote then-Gov. George Elmer Pataki of New York, from one RINO (Republican in name only) to another. "Now is the time to take action toward climate protection," Romney declared. He advocated a "regional cap-and-trade system" for New York and Massachusetts.

I'm sorry folks, but at some point we MUST be honest with ourselves.

Pelosi / Gingrich thirty second spot circa 2008. LINK

Cleaner forms of energy? Damn, where have we heard this recently? Hmmm...

Here it is, WeCanSolveIt.org.

Gingrich: "Oh sure, look, I was trying to make a point that we shouldn't be afraid to debate the left, even on the environment," Gingrich said Tuesday on New Hampshire's WGIR radio. "But obviously it was misconstrued, and it's one of the things I probably wouldn't do again." LINK What, unless the circumstances were just right? Good grief.

How do you misconstrue those actions Newt? If you want me to accept that Nancy Pelosi owned your lunch there, believe me I do. I'd be a lot more willing to believe you didn't acutally agree with her though, if you hadn't joined in this voluntarily, conducted interviews on the subject that revealed your true mindset on these matters, and even went beyond that.

What's your explanation for this Newt? LINK

Two years before policital unpopularity forced Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to abandon cap-and-trade legislation regulate carbon emissions, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., praised the idea of "mandatory carbon caps" combined with tax incentives, and said that then-President Bush should have led the charge to implement such a policy.

"I think if you have mandatory carbon caps combined with a trading system, much like we did with sulfur, and if you have a tax-incentive program for investing in the solutions, that there's a package there that's very, very good," Gingrich said during a PBS interview on February 15, 2007. "And frankly, it's something I would strongly support."

LINK Really?

Do you involve yourself in all this if you don't believe in Man-Made Global Warming? No.

New has participated in public discussions about how he came to realize the earth was warming rapidly, and we needed to take corrective measures.

Look, Mitt is wrong with his take on global warming, but folks he's not the only person who has a big problem on this issue.

I'm having a very hard time seeing myself pulling the lever for Romney this year, so this is certainly no back-handed defense of him.

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