Like Cats In Litterbox, GOP 2012 Hopefuls Desperately Scramble To Bury Past Climate Statements

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Now, as they prepare for a wide-open primary season, many of the Republicans are searching for ways to explain themselves to a conservative voting base full of hungry tea party activists and climate skeptics who don't take kindly to environmental issues so closely linked with Al Gore. "They're in an odd place," Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, told POLITICO. "They better have an explanation, an excuse or a mea culpa for why this won't happen again."

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. Hoping he'd get picked as McCain's running mate, Pawlenty, the governor of Minnesota, predicted in February 2008 that Congress would pass a comprehensive global warming bill within 12 to 18 months. "I support a reasonable cap-and-trade system," he 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." Palin – who has since referred to global warming as “snake oil science” – also touted her work setting up a sub-cabinet in her state government helping Alaskans get ready for melting permafrost, village relocations, rising seas and ocean acidification.

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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/46699.html

[Buzz Clik]

1. We've learned long ago that the words from the mouths of politicians are meaningless.

Their actions will be meaningful, and their actions will not change.

[jpak]

2. Democratic op-research should produce commecials using these statements

and force these assholes to explain their neodenier positions.

yup

[booley]

3. Only Cons could fall prey to White mail.

It's like black mail only the threat is that people will find out that you did something good.

Any hint of sanity, no matter how small or fleeting, will be punished.