Transcript: McCain on ABC’s ‘This Week’ [backs cap-and-tax, wants to sit down with Ahmadinejad]

MCCAIN: Yes, we said that we thought it would be a grave mistake to give this individual a hero’s welcome. And I think most Americans condemn this decision of the Scottish judiciary to let him loose.

I would point out that Colonel Gadhafi and his regime, which is very dictatorial and totalitarian in every way and very cruel, did reverse their position on weapons of mass destruction. Now, there’s still further steps that need to be taken, but he’s basically agreed to dismantle his nuclear efforts. If Ahmadinejad did that tomorrow, I’d be glad to sit down and talk with Ahmadinejad. So he has at least reversed the path that they were on, which was that they were going to acquire nuclear weapons.

MCCAIN: I think the threat is serious here. We’ve seen increased temperatures, which has had impact on the wildlife, on the flora and fauna, on the Colorado River itself, which we are seeing less and less of.

We are in serious drought conditions. Our parks have very fragile ecology here. And, frankly, when you’re in this driest area anyway, then they’re even more fragile.

So I think that part of the impact of climate change on our national parks is -- well, you know, they’re going to have to change the name of Glacier National Park because the glaciers are going away.

STEPHANOPOULOS: In the past, you’ve been supportive of legislation to deal with greenhouse gas emissions, with cap-and-trade. What about the current legislation that’s coming out of the House now, moving to the Senate?

They’ve met a lot of your objections about not giving away the allowances. Is this something that you can support?

MCCAIN: Well, to support a 1,400-page piece of legislation to start with is always difficult for me, but I believe that the only way we’re going to truly reduce greenhouse gas emissions effectively is the nuclear power.

We have got to build 100 nuclear power plants in the next 20 years. We can do that. Right now, the administration’s position is against storage and they’re against recycling of spent nuclear fuel. I can’t support a genuine reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, unless nuclear power is a key part of it.

MCCAIN: I’ve been for -- and nuclear power -- assuming that nuclear power would be a key part of it. I mean, you can’t get there from here. The only country that’s really making its Kyoto goals is France, where 80 percent of their electricity is generated by nuclear power.

STEPHANOPOULOS: But you’d be willing to go along with cap-and- trade, if it were part of a comprehensive deal that included more...

MCCAIN: Well, that would have to be part of it. And second of all, in any 1,400-page piece of legislation, you put in a lot of special deals for a lot of special interests. We know what happened there. The bazaar was open in the House of Representatives, so obviously, I would have to want to do away with a whole lot of that.

But I think climate change is real, and I would be glad to sit down and try to work, as I have in the past, across the aisle on this issue.

I wasn't in their councils. Thompson's campaign was awful for a very long time. People that knew Thompson couldn't believe what he was doing. With the final comment on his web site everything that happened made sense, pick off enough of the base. I have become convinced that conservatives were used by the Pubbies. The reason nothing changes in DC is because the dominant thought is socialist, neo-communist, progressivism. We have had this domination for about 100 years but I believe most conservatives figured it was a party issue. In 2004 we found out it wasn't.

“We may be better off having a stumbling Obama in the White House, then a sellout.”

Yup.
You know, the more I hear from McCain and his fat, ugly, stupid daughter, the happier I am that he lost.
It was never about voting for McCain at all. It was always about voting AGAINST 0bama, and FOR Sarah Palin.
The thing is, I can't even swear that the stupid McCain would not have passed another $787 Billion “stimulus” bill just like -14bama did, nor can I swear that McCain wouldn't have demanded yet another $700 bailout “bailout” like 0bama did.
The only difference is, it would have been the Republican Party that the public’s anger would be directed at right now, instead of the Democratic Party, if McCain had won.
McCain's loss could prove to be the best thing that could have happened to the Republican Party as far as the 2010 and 2012 elections are concerned.

Had McCain been elected, America would see all of his his goofy liberal ideas would be coming from a Republican, becoming part of how Republicans do things, and would be swinging the entire Republican ship hard to port.

Instead, they see them coming from Democrats, and they’re not liking them at all.

This just confirms my decision not to vote for McCain and reinforces my decision not to support any RINO in the future

Ya, I’m looking at you, Mitt Romney

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