[sauropod]

"Climate change, my friend, I have to tell you with all due respect, is real. It's real and the question is how do we address it," he told Englekirk. "Suppose I'm wrong and there's no such thing as climate change. All we've done is give our kids a cleaner planet.

Juan McCain is a moron.

[TomGuy]

" ... the question is how do we address it," he told Englekirk

On This Week a few months ago, McCain advocated green mandates as his solution.

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.]

[Maceman]

Juan McCain is a moron.

I can't stand him. If I lived in a battle ground state, I would hold my nose and vote for him just because Obama is so much worse (hard to believe that's even possible).

But fortunately, trapped as I am in Blue State Hell here in Massachusetts, I can afford the luxury of refusing to vote for him without worrying that I would be helping to put Obama in the White House.

So I guess every cloud does have a silver lining. Maybe I'm stuck with Kennedy and Kerry and Patrick and all the other Democrat idiots that my benighted Commonwealth continues to put in office. But at least I can vote my conscience without losing sleep over making things worse.

[Publius6961]

"Climate change, my friend, I have to tell you with all due respect, is real. It's real and the question is how do we address it," he told Englekirk. "Suppose I'm wrong and there's no such thing as climate change. All we've done is give our kids a cleaner planet.

Of course it's real, that has never been in serious dispute. Climate has been constantly changing since the world was created.

However, spending trillions$ to "feel good" about it and to be able to spout platitudes is hadly the sign of a rational human being --- never mind a wannabe leader.

[longtermmemmory]

McCain is in fact an idiot.
McCain is in fact a moron.
McCain has many RINOs and Democrats in his circle of applicants for federal positions.

but

Obama is a outright communist and racist seperatist.
Obama has only radical leftists in his circle of applicants for federal positions.

ONE of those two will become president.

(in the meantime Democrats are salivating at the prospect of a 2009 amnesty bill)

[BufordP]

Thanks for the ping. See my #22. If you ever make it out to WR I’ll give you a bumper sticker.