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Haley Barbour On Global Warming: ‘We Should Proceed’ As If It ‘Is Actually Happening’
ABC News ^ | March 25, 2011 | Michael Falcone

Posted on 03/25/2011 6:24:19 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- Potential presidential candidate Haley Barbour appears to be staking out a moderate position on global warming than some of his possible rivals, saying at an event in eastern Iowa on Friday that the country should “proceed in national policy as if global warming is actually happening.”

Barbour, who has consistently opposed regulation of the energy industry, made the comments in response to a question from an Iowa voter who asked the Mississippi governor whether he thought global warming was real.

“I think the prudent thing for us, when you consider the potential risk, the prudent thing is to proceed as if global warming is an issue,” Barbour said at a luncheon organized by a local Republican group, the Linn Eagles, “but we don’t have to destroy the American economy for no positive results to do that.”

But in an interview with a blogger at the Conservative Political Action Committee Conference in Washington last month, Barbour seemed more skeptical when asked to comment about record cold temperatures in parts of the country this year.

“This global warming is about to freeze me to death,” Barbour said in jest. It's not the first time Barbour has used the quip -- he said nearly the same thing in January during his State of the State speech at the Mississippi statehouse.

And on Friday, at the same time he acknowledged that global warming is occurring, he also added: “There are a lot of people who are very, very, very learned scientists who question whether or not what is happening is caused by man-made activity.”

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com ...


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To: PENANCE

but we get to pick the winner? Haley who??


21 posted on 03/25/2011 6:31:48 PM PDT by VaRepublican (I would propagate taglines but I don't know how. But bloggers do.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Global Warming delegates at the Copenhagen
Global Warming conference.
22 posted on 03/25/2011 6:32:15 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This has to be the most severe case of dumb-ass ever.


23 posted on 03/25/2011 6:32:35 PM PDT by stboz
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To: Free ThinkerNY

On 2010 election night, the GOP vision page ‘for the future’ or some such was taken down. There were four names in on that: McCain, Barbour, Cantor and someone else, whose name I don’t remember off-hand.

That was telling.


24 posted on 03/25/2011 6:33:24 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Moron.

Haley Barbour is the ultimate insider politician. He has been relatively conservative as governor of Mississipi because his constituents like that. But on the national level he will predictably swing left to please the voters in the more liberal states, just as so many other Republicans have done before him.

No thanks.


25 posted on 03/25/2011 6:33:24 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: PENANCE

I’m sick and tired of me-to candidates, but next year a large rock will get my vote if it’s up against Obama.


26 posted on 03/25/2011 6:34:57 PM PDT by AU72
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27 posted on 03/25/2011 6:35:16 PM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan (Sarah Palin....The Thrilla from Wasilla)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Bye bye Haley.


28 posted on 03/25/2011 6:35:23 PM PDT by svcw (Non forgiveness is like holding a hot coal thinking the other person will be blistered)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I wasn’t going to vote for Foghorn Leghorn Barbour anyway, but this shows he is just another Ruling Class wannabe who cares not that proceeding as if gorebull warming is true destroys the economy. Scratch him off the list.


29 posted on 03/25/2011 6:35:56 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Any politician who holds that the state accords rights is an oathbreaker and an "enemy... domestic.")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Hahah!

Bye bye Haley. I cannot believe that you are so stupid as to end your career even if you do believe this tripe.
Your future in the GOP or the Conservative arena is dead. Later days...


30 posted on 03/25/2011 6:36:09 PM PDT by bill1952 (Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I thought he had some sense. Too bad.. s(** for brains.


31 posted on 03/25/2011 6:37:29 PM PDT by sgtyork (The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage. Thucydides)
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To: AU72

I will proceed to act as if Haley is NOT running for President.
32 posted on 03/25/2011 6:37:58 PM PDT by wizkid
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To: Free ThinkerNY

That position would certainly cost him my support. We need to get away from the global warming scam as fast as possible.


33 posted on 03/25/2011 6:38:27 PM PDT by pallis
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Open mouth and insert foot! Loser.


34 posted on 03/25/2011 6:40:01 PM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (Where is our military?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Another one bites the dust...

To proceed as if something is happening, to our mutual and inevitable detriment, when evidence that it is happening is fraudulent, and valid evidence indicates that it is not, and when the alleged cause to be remediated has been shown to be unlikely to result in the thing that is not happening, well, that's just bloody insane.

We have one either lunatic narcissist or diabolical enemy of the Republic at the helm, another nut in high office won't do us any good.

Instead, we need someone with a pair, properly bagged.

35 posted on 03/25/2011 6:40:40 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Okay. I’ll agree to this ... so long as we proceed with the presumption that liberalism is a mental disorder and implement policies that prevent liberals from holding or voting for public office. Is that a fair trade?


36 posted on 03/25/2011 6:41:20 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Haley really is that stupid, isn’t he?


37 posted on 03/25/2011 6:42:12 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." -- Barry Soetoro, June 11, 2008)
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To: AU72

Buh Bye Barbour.


Really. What a dolt.


38 posted on 03/25/2011 6:42:18 PM PDT by PaleoBob
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To: Free ThinkerNY

He is an idiot.


39 posted on 03/25/2011 6:42:32 PM PDT by bmwcyle (It is Satan's fault)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Well now what the hell did you all think? This guy is the establishment. Why would he be anything else?


40 posted on 03/25/2011 6:42:32 PM PDT by crz
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