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Global Warming on 15-Year Hold
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The Spectacle Blog
As I note, here. Unsettling.
And, if you receive his TIA Daily, don’t miss Rob Tacinski’s take — “Disqualified” — including a must-read segment on Tim Pawlenty, including:
Unlike Trump and Gingrich, former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty does not project a sense of preening personal vanity. They just don’t do that in Minnesota. And unlike Romney, he took the other approach to dealing with his worst piece of baggage: his support for cap-and-trade energy rationing. He has been quick to disavow it, saying that he “flirted” with the global-warming hysteria but now realizes that “it was a mistake, it was stupid. It was wrong.”
But this is quite misleading. Pawlenty did a lot more than “flirt” with global warming and cap-and-trade. He got into bed with it and carried on the affair for years. A Minnesota Democrat has put together a damning video montage of Pawlenty again and again and again affirming the supposed threat of global warming, backing cap-and-trade, and shilling for the whole “green jobs” scam.
Even just viewing this issue — which is an important one, as it tests Republicans on a matter they generally fear, and instinctively pander on — this field inspires little confidence in the prospect of producing a principled leader who is remotely intellectually curious (sorry, Newt, your history on the issue shows your curiosity at minimum wears ‘green’ blinders).
Whatever one’s other thoughts on this other fellow’s possible candidacy (he could, but likely won’t do a Nixon-Goes-to-China on ethanol), it’s just so baffling why he’s the only one to just swing at it, as the facts dictate; without seeking credit for the ask in a limp-wristed critique offered to move beyond a previous mistake (Huntsman), if still needing to take it further, to run over the idiotic economics of it all (hint to you, Gov. Pawlenty).
None of these folks has not tried in some way to still straddle the ‘green jobs’ fence. We’ve already had too many ethanols — and wind now outpaces ethanol by billions, while Republicans are cooking up yet another, thank you very little.
So we’ve seen some what-not-to-dos. Now it’s time for someone to come clean on the whole spiel. Not arrogantly and ignorantly push back, a la Romney and Newt, and not go hyper-sleazy like Huntsman.
We have seen that it is possible for a politician to get it. The reasons why so many of these guys can’t all inform Rob T’s conclusion, IMO.
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Who Knows?| 5.14.11 @ 5:56PM
Romney should do a heartfelt mea culpa and confess he has seen the light, and make his core message that Romney care and Obama care are IDENTICAL, and both are curtains for America as we know it.
Actually, though, Romney's unspoken political slogan is---
Vote for Romney
He's in it for Mitt!
Michael L. Hauschild| 5.14.11 @ 6:51PM
Romney can "mea culpa" all he wants, it will not help. Obama will be his greatest advocate (he is doing it already) and periodically during the legislative battle over health care he will come right out and give Romney credit (credit from the left is culpability to the right).
Even though I used to be a Republican [I], I still become incensed when the smarmy jug eared clown "Thanks" the right for anything.
Obama will be thanking you for another four years as well. If you are ignorant enough to place the health care soul mate Romney in the nomination your mandate will be Obama AND goverment run everything.
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Bob Grant| 5.14.11 @ 10:02PM
"former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty does not project a sense of preening personal vanity. They just don't do that in Minnesota."
...Ever heard of Al Franken?
Warrior | 5.15.11 @ 8:56AM
What about Jesse Ventura?
Occam's Tool| 5.15.11 @ 2:31PM
I worked for Tim (not politically, actually). He doesn't really have it. Nonetheless, I would vote for him over Obama. He would be hold nose and vote, however.
NikFromNYC| 5.15.11 @ 8:39AM
I'm amazed that climate hysteria is finally an issue the right is willing to bash. They didn't dare confront Gore on the matter. I guess they didn't know back then what I point out in this Visual Guide to Global Warming:
Astronauts: http://oi52.tinypic.com/vwzel5.jpg
Ocean: http://oi56.tinypic.com/9u5jis.jpg
NikFromNYC| 5.15.11 @ 8:39AM
Thermometers: http://oi53.tinypic.com/2gwue6w.jpg
Ice: http://oi52.tinypic.com/2upvlvm.jpg
NikFromNYC| 5.15.11 @ 8:39AM
Earth: http://i49.tinypic.com/2mpg0tz.jpg
Psychopaths: http://oi51.tinypic.com/2po8tas.jpg
NikFromNYC| 5.15.11 @ 8:40AM
Thinker: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....ata_player
Mike Rogers| 5.15.11 @ 10:30AM
Anybody got a working link to: "A Minnesota Democrat has put together a damning video montage of Pawlenty again and again and again affirming the supposed threat of global warming..."?
Conversely, has anybody got a video or statement by candidate Pawlenty on his positive energy policy? (I can't find one)
Oldefarte| 5.15.11 @ 10:42AM
Unlike Romney, Pawlenty has to his credit admitted his mistake regarding this asinine environmental lunacy. This country's facing $4/gallon gasoline and climbing demands any serious candidate to avoid this idiocy regarding GREEN, and instead concentrate on allowing oil companies to drop offshore drilling rigs two feet apart in our three surrounding oceans!!!!!!!!!
Wayne | 5.15.11 @ 12:34PM
Good point: Show stoppers in my opinion are:
1. Cap and Trade and anything to do with man-made global warming.
2. Amnesty for illegal aliens (where is Cain on this?)
3. Not willing to cut the US deficit to zero in 4 years. (acts as though there is no Tea Party)
4. Soft on China (the new 1000 pound gorilla in the room).
5. Supports using the US troops as the policemen of the world and nation building. (neo-con)
6. Favors government solutions rather than free market solutions to every day problems. (collectivist mentality).
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