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This man is an idiot, and if elected, he will destroy the economy.
1 posted on 05/12/2008 5:26:20 AM PDT by webschooner
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More validation why I will never vote for this Sell out.


2 posted on 05/12/2008 5:29:16 AM PDT by Sprite518
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I am pro-global warming.

I woke up to 43 degrees this morning.


3 posted on 05/12/2008 5:29:40 AM PDT by JRochelle (Keep sweet means shut up and take it.)
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...argues that global warming is undeniable

It is in the 40s, in the middle of May, on the east coast. There is ice falling in Pittsburgh now. How's that for "deniable". BTW, McCain does not argue that global warming is undeniable. He says it is possible.
4 posted on 05/12/2008 5:30:30 AM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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Earth to McCain! Earth to McCain! It is already cooling...Please read the scientific evidence!


5 posted on 05/12/2008 5:32:52 AM PDT by TommyDale (I) (Never forget the Republicans who voted for illegal immigrant amnesty in 2007!)
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while adhering to free-market principles

McCain's major solution is to implement a cap-and-trade program

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Which is it? Free-market principles or implementation of cap-and-trade (i.e., regulations)?

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Just weeks ago, McCain was advocating mandates. And saying all this green is not going to cost the taxpayers.

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This is McCain (from This Week, February 17, 2008) [emphasis added]:
STEPHANOPOULOS: How about on the issue of climate change? Because you and Sen. [Joe] Lieberman [I-Conn.] have come out for a bill which would have mandatory reductions in greenhouse gases.

MCCAIN: Gradual reductions, yes.

STEPHANOPOULOS: But they are mandatory.

MCCAIN: Yes.


STEPHANOPOULOS: Are you sticking by that?

MCCAIN: What I mean by that is that it's cap-and-trade, that there will be incentives for people to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It's a free-market approach. The Europeans are using it now. We did it in the case of addressing acid rain -- look, if we do that, we stimulate green technologies. I have great faith in the American industry. General Electric, the world's largest corporation, has announced they're dedicated to green technologies. This will be profit-making business.

It won't cost the American taxpayer. It will make profits, because we'll move forward with the innovation and ability of American industry to address this issue.
No wonder McCain admits he doesn't know much about economics. Who does he think is going to pay for GE making all that profit, since he says it isn't the American taxpayer? Will President McCain just mandate that profits will henceforth grow on trees? Where is the profit from those mandated fluorescent bulbs coming from? Is McCain secretly suggesting he will set up a program to provide free fluorescent bulbs to the American people, since he says "It won't cost the American taxpayer"?

[Hint, JohnnyMc: Consumers. And a majority of consumers are also taxpayers. So, all that corporate profit will cost the taxpayers.]
6 posted on 05/12/2008 5:33:17 AM PDT by TomGuy
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McCain "... argues that global warming is undeniable ..."

Dear Senator,
Many prominent scientists and climatologists are now questioning whether global warming is real or an aberration in how the data was collected and interpreted. The link between CO2 in the atmosphere and increasing global temperatures is not proven and if it has any role at all it is in combination with many other factors which are simply beyond human control. To irreparably damage the US economy pursuing the phantom of man made global warming is unconscionable.

7 posted on 05/12/2008 5:38:42 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Mir we bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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To: webschooner

How I am ever going to bring myself to pull the lever for this guy.


8 posted on 05/12/2008 5:39:47 AM PDT by KansasGirl
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“{The Arizona senator promised to challenge China and India, two economic rivals who are fueling their challenge to U.S. market supremacy with heavily polluting fuels such as coal, gas and oil.”

Here’s a suggestion. If you’re serious about challenging China and India, propose legislation that imposes tariffs on all goods imported from nations using “heavily polluting fuels” and which have lax environmental standards in general. That’ll get their attention.

Ah, I knew you weren’t serious. We can’t do anything that complicates corporations’ search for the world’s cheapest labor and lowest environment standards as places to produce products to be sold in the USA.


9 posted on 05/12/2008 5:41:44 AM PDT by Will88
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If he used the word “undeniable”, he has proven himself an idiot. Another brick in the wall. Please, Repubs, ditch this clown and give us a real candidate. We’ll respond in two ways: 1) you’ll get money, 2) we’ll actually vote.


12 posted on 05/12/2008 5:43:41 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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Sorry McCain... you can’t pander to your base and pander to your opposition at the same time. Although you are a Democrat in reality, you are running as a Republican and this strategy just won’t work.


13 posted on 05/12/2008 5:46:09 AM PDT by rhombus
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A Kyoto-like agreement would be a disaster fr the US. Countries like China would ignore such a pact, anyway. However, if McCain’s answer to global warming and (energy dependence) promotes nuclear energy, then I support that.


14 posted on 05/12/2008 5:46:40 AM PDT by SueRae
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To: webschooner

So while fighting the islam terrorists at the front door, Mr. McCain will let the communists in the backdoor to destroy our economy.

How about we give Alaska back to the Russians? We aren’t using it anyway.


19 posted on 05/12/2008 5:50:10 AM PDT by sergeantdave (Governments hate armed citizens more than armed criminals)
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This is nothing but a ploy to divide “young voters”. McCain had no opinion on this issue whatsoever until 18 months ago. And his solution: more nuclear power, is a hell of a lot better than the Democrat solution: dismantle the American economy.


21 posted on 05/12/2008 5:51:49 AM PDT by montag813
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I am almost to the point of swearing off ANY vote for president this year. Keep talking, John, you’ll eventally push me, and the whole base, totally away.......


25 posted on 05/12/2008 5:57:19 AM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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Republican John McCain, reaching out to both independents and green-minded social conservatives, argues that global warming is undeniable....

No need to read past this point - the candidate is delusional.

27 posted on 05/12/2008 5:58:25 AM PDT by meyer (Still conservative, no longer Republican)
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"For all of the last century, the profit motive basically led in one direction - toward machines, methods and industries that used oil and gas,"

Well, that is one way of spinning the interference of government...

30 posted on 05/12/2008 5:59:20 AM PDT by LRS
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Is John McCain an imbecile? The Chinese and Indians are digging up coal and burning it as fast as they can and building new coal burning power plants as fast as they can

The Russians just said they will not cut back on any CO2 emissions


34 posted on 05/12/2008 6:04:22 AM PDT by dennisw
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Has he ever researched anything, what dingbat moron.


39 posted on 05/12/2008 6:11:21 AM PDT by boomop1
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green-minded social conservatives

What the hell are those?

41 posted on 05/12/2008 6:16:47 AM PDT by TADSLOS (The GOP death march to the gravesite is underway.)
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Okay calling all RINO McCain Kool-Aid drinkers to tell me again why McCain should get my vote.

Make your list long because if you notice my tagline my list as why I won’t is pretty long.


43 posted on 05/12/2008 6:18:51 AM PDT by stockpirate (30,000,000 reasons to NOT support McCain, immigration.)
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