Posted on 09/08/2011 3:03:16 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
"When you make comments that fly in the face of 98 out of 100 climate scientists, to call into question the science of evolution, all I am saying is that in order for the Republican Party to win, we can't run from science," Huntsman said. "By making comments that basically don't reflect the reality of the situation, we turn people off."
Politico's John Harris, a debate moderator, pressed Texas Gov. Rick Perry to name the scientists that he refers to on the campaign trail as credibly refuting the international consensus that humans are contributing to global warming.
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Perry has taken the role of the champion of AGW skeptics, so it should not have been a surprise that MSNBC and their buddies would try to make him look like an ignorant yahoo.
Think about what happened to Palin because of an interview question about a nebulous term called "The Bush Doctrine." I don't think she had ever mentioned that term before Gibson asked her about it. Perry has been talking a lot about global warming. In the GOP primaries, most voters may be more worried about the EPA, but videos of Perry not being able to defend his position will be there in the general election if he gets that far. He needs better preparation.
Romney tried to have it both ways. I don't remember him saying the GOP is "anti-science" last night, but he has that line in his bag if he needs it later. Instead, he attacked Obama's Green Jobs.
I will let Huntsman speak for himself, barf.
Seriously, why is this guy even fouling the air around Republicans?
My suggestion is for Huntsman to switch parties and run against Obama in a Democratic Primary contest. He certainly seems more like a centrist Democrat to me. He won’t win the GOP nomination anyway.
Huntsman is a sham. I was listening to the debate and his answers were phony. He’s never had a single conservative thought in his alleged mind.
I think as far as the issues for the 2012 election, climate change isn’t high on the list.
Generally, the minute you ask a ‘believer’ what climate is the ‘right’ climate for New Jersey...they have to sit there and think about how to respond. There are over a dozen climate situations over the past 100 million years for New Jersey, and it’s hard to pinpoint the one that matters. And once they do respond....then you ask why it kept changing....long before man came along...and they lack any answer to respond.
And the IDIOT thinks no one notices...
How stupid does one have to get to try such a childish attempt?
What caused the ice to form?
What caused the ice to melt?
When those 98 scientists can explain this to me, I will listen. When their computer models conform with recorded history, I will believe.
But I don't need another religion.
FU Hunt-’Rat
Just my opinion, but I think Perry has spent most of his time dealing with the fires, and probably hasn’t spent much time “prepping” for a debate. I actually had very low expectations for his first debate.
Just because he is a "Republican" from a Western state does not mean he knows what he is talking about.
He had to agree with Zero to become Ambassador to China.
Huntsman... just because some idiot that had themselves chained to a tree last week calls themselves a “scientist” doesn’t make it so.
These “environmental scientists” are nothing of the sort, they are extreme environmental nutjobs with a political agenda who would do whatever it took to advance their agenda, including manipulating the data and or models to show what they want them to show.
I believe the data and models of these people about as much as they believe the data and models of scientists hired by Exxon Mobil.
” There are over a dozen climate situations over the past 100 million years for New Jersey, and it’s hard to pinpoint the one that matters.”
My favorite is the blank liberal stare when you mention the ice age. Methane from the dinosaur poopers? Please. What a scam. Or the global cooling scare from the 70’s. Anything to destroy our economy.
Huntsman is a joke. He is a trojan horse.
Oops, I am wrong, he is a horses ass for the left.
I'd rather see Trump run against 0bama. That would be fun.
The “Bush Doctrine” was not high on the list in 2008, but it hurt Palin in a major way.
I don’t think Perry explained his position on entitlements in a skillful way either, and that is dangerous.
They call him (media) center right. He is in actuality center left.
Nobody who beliefs that Joseph Smith found a magic rock and that Garden of Eden is in Missouri should be telling anybody on planet earth what to think about science.
F Huntsman on this. Perry was so correct and I encourage him to point out we are supposed to hobble our economy while China pumps out more CO2 than we ever did and plans on increasing it, so the whole thing is a ridiculous effort in futility.
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