Global Warming delegates at the Copenhagen
Global Warming conference.
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.”
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but we get to pick the winner? Haley who??
This has to be the most severe case of dumb-ass ever.
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.
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.
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.
Bye bye Haley.
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.
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...
I thought he had some sense. Too bad.. s(** for brains.
That position would certainly cost him my support. We need to get away from the global warming scam as fast as possible.
Open mouth and insert foot! Loser.
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.
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?
Haley really is that stupid, isn’t he?
Buh Bye Barbour.
He is an idiot.
Well now what the hell did you all think? This guy is the establishment. Why would he be anything else?
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