Posted on 05/12/2008 10:25:21 PM PDT by parousia
GOP presidential nominee John McCain is using the idea of global togetherness to promote “a cap-and-trade system” to battle climate change. He said “Americans and Europeans need to get serious about substantially reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the coming years or we will hand over a much-diminished world to our grandchildren.”
According to the Arizona senator, whose opinion column appeared in the March 19 Financial Times, the United States needs to work with Europe to create a replacement for the Kyoto treaty.
“We need a successor to Kyoto, a cap-and-trade system that delivers the necessary environmental impact in an economically responsible manner.” He said America needs to be willing to be “persuaded” by our European allies. McCain’s column was headlined “America must be a good role model.”
However, he never addressed the potential costs of his proposal.
McCain talked about Americans and Europeans leading together but only said he wanted to “encourage the participation of the rest of the world, including most importantly, the developing economic powerhouses of China and India.”
But experience has already shown that government intervention in environmental issues can have negative consequences. Ethanol mandates have artificially inflated demand for corn and affected grocery prices. And recent studies have shown ethanol isn’t any better for the environment than burning fossil fuels.
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Because:
a) There’s no money in it.
b) Those countries will tell the enviro-fascists to suck eggs.
c) The intent of the enviro-fascists is to retard American and Western growth in order to achieve global income equality.
You can always re-pledge loyalty to the crown... :)
Next you will hear that your barbecue grill causes global warming and you need a $500 permit to grill your steak to offset your CO2 contribution. And McCain will lap up this eco-fascist propaganda. He is stupid beyond measure.
Ronald Reagan fought regulation. John McCain brought regulation.
“Global togetherness”
What a load of sh......
So why would I vote for McCain?
National Socialism
I guess the Democraps have tons of DUmmies and the GOP has a great big dummy as a candidate.
I will not vote for this socialist.
Exactly! For the first time in my adult life (53 years) I am not voting for President. I will vote for the lower ballot, but I have decided I can not vote for McCain, and this latest BS about Global Warming is one of the main reasons.
McCain WILL NOT HAVE MY VOTE after his speech yesterday on Cap & Trade. McCain supporters called me for a donation and I lit into them for 5 solid minutes and said that if they got anything at all, it would be a peso and a carbon offset. It felt great! The AGW crowd must be fought at all costs!
That way we can defeat cap and trade.
I'm sure that everyone will prefer Cap and Tax.
The way I see it is this:
Obama will screw this country up pretty bad for the next four years through his ultra-liberal hate-America-first ideas and relative inexperience.
McCain will screw this country up pretty bad for the next four years through his pretty-dang-liberal reach-across-the-aisle ideas and so much experience he will get both sides to go along with him.
In the first scenario - the dems will get the blame, we will have finally had the “first black president” (so maybe we can finally move on) and people will be ready to vote for REAL change - IF - a good conservative will step up to lead us out of this wilderness.
In the second scenario - the republicans will get the blame - people will be so sick to death of the party that they will vote for ANYTHING as long as it isn’t a republican! Probably, at that point - Hillary will be ready for her comeback - and we’ll still have to worry about that.
McCain is a pompous, deluded idiot. No matter who wins, we are so screwed - I would rather the dems get the blame for it than the republicans. No way does this man get my vote - let the chips fall where they may. A vote for McCain is another nail in the GOP’s coffin.
McCain is just plain (Silly) and is a poor choice for our Repub nominee.
The Bottom Line,
NSNR
Semi-capable is definitely what we've had since 2000. Anyway, I don't think the GOP has lost its mind. I think that we held primaries, and there was not a single good, well-funded, qualified conservative candidate in the bunch. Not a one.
It's a free country. If the conservative movement is all that, where was their leadership? Where was their organization? Maybe the conservative movement got complacent and thought the GOP would do all the work for them? But the GOP is just a party, a vessel. Their interests are not the same as conservatives'. There's are far more practical and self-serving.
So enough with blaming the GOP for acting like what it is. How about blaming the conservative movement for its utter lack of conservative leadership. Even now, there is no one we know of waiting in the wings. John McCain won by default.
Time for an uprising he is not electable and we need a person who is, then put him away in the funny farm.
lol! First of all, McCain's probably going to win. Second, we had our chance. We had primaries. Who was the most electable in the bunch? McCain. Not the gay friendly Mormon from Massachusetts. Not the cross dressing liberal from New Yawk. Not the nanny state yokel from Arkansas. Not the tired, late for his own funeral prune Fred Thompson, not the unknown, unfunded Duncan Hunter, not the guy who can't win dog catcher Alan Keyes. None of em. That's how we ended up with McCain.
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