As I suggested Sarah may not be ready at present to take on the global warming-environmental wacko lobby. Perhaps she needs to do more research. Rome was not built in a day. Give Sarah some slack. She will get better. This is a great debut.
Techno, if as politician you deny global warming is man made or happening, there are two significan pitfalls.
It becomes a scientific argument, rather then a political/economic one. She’s a politician
Secondly its very easy to be lablelled as climate change denier.
Thirdly, she shouldn’t dismiss concerns some people have that climate change is occurring, she will lose support as some people have been conned into believing this is occurring on both sides of the fence. She should argue them that there are better alternative strategies (nuclear, world agreements, research in the US, technology advancements), and focus on economic impact of just introducing it (jobs, costs, taxes).
Anybody who has heard Sarah talk about the local issues that faced her as governor knows she was a hard working policy wonk on those issues.
Does anybody doubt that if Sarah puts her mind to it, she might do the same with national issues over the next few years?
This is a start. There are a few things to criticize about the article. But with her work ethic and intelligence, imagine how sharp she will become on national issues over the next 3 1/2 years. Add to that her charisma, her name recognition her common sense conservative point of view and her large base of support and I can easily see why the left is concerned.