Wingers Eyeing McCain Positions Suspiciously, Including His Putative Environmental Stances - WP

[hatrack]

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Activists are also watching closely what the platform says about the environment. The current document has only one paragraph about global warming, which talks about using "markets and new technologies" to solve the problem of climate change, and states that the United States "strongly opposes" the Kyoto Protocol to curb emissions globally.

That contrasts sharply with McCain's message on the campaign trail. Government action to address global warming is a centerpiece of his campaign. He supports a cap-and-trade emissions plan that many conservatives oppose, and he has talked about trying to reach a global-emissions agreement that includes China and India.

"It is something that we are very concerned with," said Donald J. Devine, vice chairman of the American Conservative Union, which will have a convention operation to monitor proposed changes to the platform. In past years, the ACU has produced an alternative conservative platform as a guide to those working on the real one.

Devine said he is hopeful that the environmental planks in the platform will focus on McCain's support for nuclear power plants and his willingness to revisit offshore oil and gas drilling. But he is prepared for the worst. "There's no question it's going to be changed radically," he said of the platform.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/06/AR2008070602322_2.html?sid=ST2008070700054&pos=

[lib2DaBone]

1. add to it McCain's position on Gay Marriage ?

I'm wondering how McCain is going to sell his gay-bashing, homophobic rhetoric to the Evangelical Wing Nuts when he chooses an openly gay man to be his V.P. ? (This should be interesting)

[madokie]

2. I'm curious who that gay man is going to be

it wouldn't be graham cause hes still in the closet, crist maybe?