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McCain appeals to independents with environment pitch
CNN ^ | Peter Hamby

Posted on 05/12/2008 11:51:13 AM PDT by kingattax

(CNN) -- Kicking off a week-long push seen as outreach to independent and Democratic voters in crucial swing states, John McCain on Monday will deliver a speech outlining his vision for combating global warming.

"We stand warned by serious and credible scientists across the world that time is short and the dangers are great," McCain will say in Portland, Oregon, according to prepared remarks. "The most relevant question now is whether our own government is equal to the challenge."

McCain's commitment to fight global warming puts him at odds with some Republicans in Congress and with the Bush administration, which has not made climate change a top priority.

McCain's stance on carbon emissions places him closer on the environmental spectrum to Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

In his speech, the Arizona senator will propose capping carbon emissions incrementally, with the goal of returning to 1990 emission levels by the year 2020 using a cap-and-trade program.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; alarmist; globalwarming; greens; idiot; independentvote; itsthesundummie; junkscience; mccain; mccaingwarming; rino; shootownfoot
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"We stand warned by serious and credible scientists across the world that time is short and the dangers are great," McCain will say in Portland, Oregon.......

Bravo Sierra

1 posted on 05/12/2008 11:51:14 AM PDT by kingattax
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oh heeeeeere we go.

how low will he go to smooch liberal butt, in pursuit of so-called “moderates”? This is just the beginning, and we haven’t even entered the general election campaign yet.


2 posted on 05/12/2008 11:53:49 AM PDT by VictoryGal (Never give up, never surrender!)
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To: kingattax

Where’s his outreach to THE BASE OF HIS OWN PARTY that’s going to leave him high and dry come November?

}:-)4


3 posted on 05/12/2008 11:55:19 AM PDT by Moose4 (http://moosedroppings.wordpress.com -- Because 20 million self-important blogs just aren't enough.)
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To: kingattax

Are they donating?


4 posted on 05/12/2008 11:55:33 AM PDT by Mamzelle (Time for Conservatives to go Free Agent)
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To: kingattax
McCain appeals to independentsliberals with environment pitch.
5 posted on 05/12/2008 11:57:19 AM PDT by Prokopton
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To: kingattax

exactly, time is short... seems Al Gore sounded this globull alarm 8 or 9 years ago,, and gave us ten years till dooms day. so we probably won’t be around at election time


6 posted on 05/12/2008 11:57:48 AM PDT by JoanneSD (illegals represented without taxation.. Americans taxed without representation)
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7 posted on 05/12/2008 11:58:18 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan (The road to hell is paved with the stones of pragmatism.)
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To: kingattax

McCain is a jerk.


8 posted on 05/12/2008 11:59:09 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Search for Folding Project - Join FR Team 36120)
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To: Mamzelle

Can someone explain how a cap and trade system works, and why it is a good system?

Under these carbon credit systems, isn’t it just a feel good thing? Because those who buy carbon credits are still producing too much pollution, right? They simply get to feel good about “fighting global warming”? Is that how it works?

What gets me about that is that those producing too much carbon still get to produce the pollution. How does paying somebody else for a carbon credit reduce the pollution they are so worried about?


9 posted on 05/12/2008 12:00:28 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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> Are they donating?

Moderates? Oh Lord no. They’re the courted ones, they’re not expected to pay doodley squat. Us trusty conservatives are expected to pony up. Well they can wait with their outstretched hands until they fill up with cobwebs, because the traitorous GOP is not getting ONE thin dime from me. Not ONE.


10 posted on 05/12/2008 12:02:11 PM PDT by VictoryGal (Never give up, never surrender!)
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To: JoanneSD

Speaking of Al Gore and those guys, why is it that, at the time of Kyoto in 1997, the U.S. didn’t ratify Kyoto? \

And why in 1997 and while Clinton and Gore were still in office, why the heck didn’t they fight global warming then? When they were in a position of power, why didn’t they fight with all their might for this cause which is the greatest challenge manking has ever faced? If Al Gore and all the Dems. so firmly believe that, why didn’t the Clinton administration get firmly behind it? If it’s an issue that transcends politics, why weren’t they fighting this cause when they might have made a difference????????


11 posted on 05/12/2008 12:02:55 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Prokopton

my thoughts exactly.


12 posted on 05/12/2008 12:03:05 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (Conservatives are to McCain what Charlie Brown is to Lucy.)
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To: FreeAtlanta

Would you prefer him to be honest, and lose by 5%. Or would you prefer that McCain say what needs to be said in order to win?

Although I’m not a big fan of McCains, I love the fact that he has embraced Global Warming and thus has removed it as an issue for the democrats.


13 posted on 05/12/2008 12:05:31 PM PDT by proudpapa (McCain-Pawlenty '08)
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Climate “scientists” hide their data, will not discuss their methodology, demonize people who disagree with them, constantly change their predictions, etc, etc, etc.

These are not the actions of people who have the facts on their side.


14 posted on 05/12/2008 12:05:56 PM PDT by Badger1
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To: Moose4

His base is not in his own party.


15 posted on 05/12/2008 12:14:02 PM PDT by Ingtar (Haley Barbour 2012, Because he has experience in Disaster Recovery. - ejonesie22)
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To: kingattax

This isn’t a mobilizing issue and it is really a waste of McCain’s time. The only thing I can think of is he thinks there is a good chance of picking up some moderate liberals and green independents which are exactly the people who he isn’t going to get. He should stick to what works for him, fiscal responsibility, a strong military, and a strong economy. He might as well go pick up Huckabee as his VP for all that this is worth to him.


16 posted on 05/12/2008 12:14:58 PM PDT by Maelstorm (Tyranny is not excused because the target is someone you disagree with.)
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To: proudpapa
The boy in the penguin suit must have got to you too.
17 posted on 05/12/2008 12:16:58 PM PDT by Sybeck1 (It's truly bad when your Savior in November is Judas Himself.)
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To: proudpapa

McCain is being honest. He honestly is a leftist.


18 posted on 05/12/2008 12:17:41 PM PDT by MBB1984
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To: kingattax
The fallacy of human induced global warming has nothing to do with the environment. It is one of many methods that socialists use to replace our Democratic Republic with socialism and socialist John McCain is leading the charge in Congress.
19 posted on 05/12/2008 12:20:41 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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Would you prefer him to be honest, and lose by 5%. Or would you prefer that McCain say what needs to be said in order to win?

I would prefer he stop taking positions that advance the socialist cause. How is it winning when it only helps socialists?
20 posted on 05/12/2008 12:24:47 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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