"The world is getting warmer": Romney

Townhall/Reuters ^ | 6/3/2011 | Ros Krasny

[AT7Saluki]

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney broke with Republican orthodoxy on Friday by saying he believes that humans are responsible, at least to some extent, for climate change.

"I believe the world is getting warmer, and I believe that humans have contributed to that," he told a crowd of about 200 at a town hall meeting in Manchester, New Hampshire.

"It's important for us to reduce our emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases that may be significant contributors."

[combat_boots]

Well, it’s getting to be summer in the Northern Hemisphere. So, technically he’s correct about the Northern Hemisphere in summer.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

It’s just outrageous. Just after Romney bashed Obama on jobs, he let it slip that he is a Warmer.

[itsahoot]

Just one of the many Strongcandidates in the republican field. </sarcasm>

[combat_boots]

Humans do not get warmer in the summer, though.

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

:-)

[21twelve]

What do you mena? Just think of all the jobs that will be created to build wind mills. And to harness cow farts.

[Jim Noble]

I’m watching my kids play softball 1/2 mile from Mitt’s NH house and it’s freezing.

Perhaps the “Gore effect” has been transferred to Mitt?

[3boysdad]

This is all you need to know you don't want this monster either. I'm honored to work in the last crumbling remains of America's once strong heavy industry and I assure you the whole “global warming” scam is not just about power and money - it's about wiping out the source that made us strongest in the world. The irony is that we can still be that power house if we would only return to common sense by significantly reducing the power of the EPA (and other Feds, in my case, MSHA) and returning it to the states. This would in turn significantly reduce the power of special interest groups like the Sierra Club and Bio Diversity.

[FlyingEagle]

I would never vote for Romney in the primary nor in the general. Never.

If somehow the corrupt GOP foists a Romney on us, and if the morans elect him, then the only way to stop the presidency from enacting another 4 years of marxism is through actions by the governorships and legislatures of the states, and through the congress and the courts, and any other constitutionally defensible method of resistance or as otherwise required.

I have no idea who Romneys handlers are, but they seen to have co-opted the Fourth Estate already, and that leaves me plenty worried.

Romney coupled with democrats will ruin the country even worse than the Kenyan. The USA simply cannot take another 4 years of what has been happening, we will fall apart as a nation. Think Venezuela. Total corruption.

[itsahoot]

Facepalm is my first reaction, but I supect this is just politics; Kyoto is dead, cap and trade won’t happen, etc., everyone knows it.

Yep and we don't want it resuscitated, so no RINO.

[NoGrayZone]

"I believe the world is getting warmer, and I believe that humans have contributed to that,"

Then shut your trap and go away and perhaps it will start "cooling".

[NoGrayZone]

Could someone please explain to these idiots why the ice age occurred, melted away, formed a mini ice age, which too melted....all without the help of our greenhouse gases?

[mickey finn]

One day.

He committed political suicide faster than Newty.

[upchuck]

Wow, this is fantastic. Just what I need: another reason to not even consider Myth.

[monkapotamus]

[Doogle]

...he’s in for a bumpy ride

[babygene]

“The perfect combo is Bolton-Ryan.”

Sorry, nothing against the two but it’s not possible... “Nobody” knows who Bolton is, and only a few know who Ryan is. You absolutely can’t win without name recognition. Period.

And, that leaves us with Palin. No potential republican candidate can come close...

The good part is that she’s probably the most conservative of the bunch.

[Munz]

the media will select him as the GOP favorite soon

[driftdiver]

“No one who is able to win a statewide election in Massachusetts as a “Republican” is EVER going to be a true conservative.”

Needs to be repeated.

[VictoryGal]

Next he will be telling us RommeyCare ObamaCare ain't so bad...

I know. Boy is he embarrassing! I had to laugh when he was acting all tough against Zer0 during his announcement. Yeah, sure, I believe you, Mittens. If he ever took a REAL tough stand on anything (and stuck to it) I swear I would die of shock.