GOP presidential hopefuls shift on global warming

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

GOP presidential hopefuls shift on global warming
DINA CAPPIELLO, Associated Press
Updated 04:33 a.m., Friday, May 27, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) — For Republican presidential contenders who once supported combatting global warming, the race is heating up. Faced with an activist right wing that questions the science linking pollution to changes in the Earth's climate and also disdains big government, most of the GOP contenders have stepped back from their previous positions on global warming. Some have apologized outright for past support of proposals to reduce heat-trapping pollution. And those who haven't fully recanted are under pressure to do so.

The latest sign of that pressure came Thursday when New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said he was pulling his state out of a regional agreement to reduce greenhouse gases, saying it won't work. While Christie, a rising GOP star, has said he won't run for his party's presidential nomination, some in the party continue to recruit him.

"Republican presidential hopefuls can believe in man-made global warming as long as they never talk about it, and oppose all the so-called solutions," said Marc Morano, a former aide to Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe, one of the most vocal climate skeptics in Congress.

Morano now runs a website called Climate Depot where he attacks anyone who buys into the scientific consensus on climate change. Enemy No. 1 for Morano these days is Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker who in 2008 shared a couch with then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a TV ad backed by climate change guru Al Gore.

Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/GOP-presidential-hopefuls-shift-on-global-warming-1398324.php

[spicegal]

1. Oh please, here we go again. After insisting for years that

climate change was a hoax and fraud committed by the scientific community for God knows what purpose, making fun Al Gore's attempts to educate the public, and sabotaging ANY efforts to seriously address this looming crisis, they're flip-flopping. That just takes the cake. I'm sooooo sick of these right wingers. They make me want to scream.

[SpiralHawk]

2. Wow - RepubliCons HATE reality

How stoopid. How totally maliciously stoopid. A veritable TORNADO or RepubliCon stoopid & evil.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. BIASED: "questions the science linking pollution"

"questions the science" ??????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!

They ABHOR the science, they prefer the Bible over science!

They are TRUE BELIEVERS in their own self-righteous truth and IGNORE science in every way!!!

[Hubert Flottz]

4. If they were REALLY smart...

They wouldn't be republicans.

[mwb970]

5. Look at all the crazy ideas you have to pretend to believe to get the R nomination!

Evolution is false.

Global warming is a hoax.

Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are socialist and un-American.

Obama is a Kenyan who will take everyone's guns.

"Obamacare" (you must call it that to show that you hate Obama) is a socialist government takeover of health care.

President Obama raised taxes, which hurt the economy.

The stimulus didn't work.

The Ryan plan is good for everyone and will save Medicare.

Taxes must never be raised on anyone anywhere for any reason, ever.

All unions are evil and must be eliminated.

Teachers, police officers and firefighters are greedy, but billionaire CEOs and hedge-fund managers are not.

Cutting taxes on billionaires increases government revenue.

Allowing guns in bars and schools (while keeping them out of the Statehouse) will make everyone safer.

Making it harder to vote will strengthen our democracy.

Conducting government meetings behind closed doors improves transparency.

Removing all government oversight will make corporations more honest.

All charter schools are perfect, but would be even more so with no accountability whatsoever.

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As far as I know, the average teabagging asshole believes every single one of these statements, all of which are demonstrably false, and all of which are heard every day on Fox "News" and right-wing hate radio. With this pantload of lethal nonsense as their entire campaign stance, how do any of these republican fools expect to get votes from actual Americans, once they have won their Tea Party primaries?

The Tea Party and its demented far-right wingnut extremists are killing the republican party. This is good news for all Americans!