I’ll point out that this is just a rumor. Last week many people were sure that Obama’s VP was going to be Evan Bayh based on bumper sticker printing rumors. Let’s hope this one doesn’t pan out. – Anthony
UPDATE: Speculation has now shifted to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Her approval rating, according to the Anchorage Daily News, tops 80 percent. Among other things, she supports drilling in Alaska, with limits, she’s pro-life and she’s a fiscal conservative. If she’s the pick, that surely figured into the McCain strategy of hoping to woo upset Hillary Clinton supporters. She’d be a magnet for them.
From Capital Research: Tim Pawlenty, Global Warming Alarmist
August 28th, 2008 by Matthew Vadum
Rumors are circulating that GOP presumptive presidential candidate Senator John McCain plans to select Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty as his vice presidential running mate.Pawlenty certainly talks a good shtick when it comes to free markets, low taxes, and limited government, but his views on climate change and energy policy are downright frightening.
“We should not spend time on voices that say [climate change] is not real,” Pawlenty said even as new evidence surfaces almost daily that undermines the alarmist consensus.
“We should have listened to President Carter” about energy policy, Pawlenty said.
President Jimmy Carter, readers may recall, gave his infamous “malaise” speech (also known as the “Crisis of Confidence” speech) live on television on July 15, 1979.
In it Carter blamed Americans for the problems in American society at that time. He told Americans they were too materialistic and greedy and that they needed to make do with less. He told Americans that turning down their thermostats and wearing sweaters indoors would help solve the nation’s problems.
That was Jimmy Carter’s energy policy.
And Pawlenty says we should have listened to President Carter?
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Well, there goes my vote. Looks like I`ll be staying at home !
All sides are now looking pretty pathetic.
I was hoping for Fred T for VP.
He’s a politician, he’ll change his position… and a few more years of cooling will ensure he does.
Just great.
al gore #2
Congressional skeptics and realists are the only ones left to stop this nonsense {as they did with Kyoto}.
Yeah, Obama should get it. At least he does not come across
as a religious nutbar, whether the environmental religion or any other.
Obama’s ‘power of persuasion’ may also cut through the entrenched
interests on issues like the deficit, immigration, and healthcare.
I was hoping for anyone that did not believe this global warming , in the hope we could get some sense in the GOP campaign. No luck! Yes, I was hoping for Fred T. But, he got started too late and did not have the staying power.
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Don’t stay home! It may not be him. McCain wasn’t my first choice, but he is better than BO!
REPLY: BTW thanks for the letter and assistance today, much appreciated – Anthony
I keep praying that DC is snow bound with a blizzard from Jan 20th to the 31st so that no one can get in or out and the coronation (oops! the inauguration) has to be delayed. maybe that eill cool off some of those AGW fanatics.
No matter who gets in, I can see the ecomomy going down the drain. I already told my boys to start studying Chinese or whatever language they speek in India so they can get a job.
It’s is my pleasure. I enjoy the work you do and also this site. Keep up the good fight of “informing and educating” the “uninformed”. Regardless of who wins this election, we must to win the battle against the “uninformed” and those who are “corrupt”.
I keep praying that DC is snow bound with a blizzard from Jan 10th to the 31st so that no one can get in or out and the coronation (oops! the inauguration) has to be delayed. maybe that will cool off some of those AGW fanatics.
No matter who gets in, I can see the ecomomy going down the drain. I already told my boys to start studying Chinese or whatever language they speek in India so they can get a job.
McCain and Obama have pretty close views on AGW. How deeply held – I don’t know for either, but once elected either will have a congress willing to pass whatever they are willing to sign.
That’s perhaps the most frustrating choice in this election cycle.
Newest tidbit to hit the news has Secret Service sweeping a Romney family member’s home in Michigan. This was also the first hint on the selection of Biden.
Stay tuned … by Noon ET we’ll know for sure which way it goes…
OT
The ice is disappearing.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080828120314.htm
Pawley is just a red herring. I think it’ll be someone else.
I HOPE!!
Look for someone that appeals to the Clinton centrists.
Timmy is from the libertarian wing of RINOs. A lightweight who’s strong only on the ‘No new taxes’ issue. He’s for government sponsored gambling, higher fees for services, keeping major sports franchises in town with public money, yada yada yada.
I’ll be writing in this year-‘None of the above’.
I listened to Obamas spech last night. Climate change was way, way ,way down on the list of thing he rattled off that were a proiroty for the country. I have a feeling that when smart people get around Obama and wisper in his ear “if you do this, the economy will do this…” and he’ll reconsider. McCain, not so sure about that. He’s a maverick, right?
“The ice is disappearing.”
No its not, it’s just compacting. The melting has all but stopped.
http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/5638/ctvsjaxamw7.jpg
What do you think of Obama’s speech tonight, Mr. Watts?
(in case you missed it, I posted the video on my blog)
Yet another politician that appears not to get it. You can’t have free markets (and many other freedoms too!) if man is really causing global-warming. If it really is as bad as the IPCC and others say it is, or worse, then his views are incompatible. Totalitarian action is what is needed to save us if the planet is on a one-way ticket to catastrophe. Give all power to the Greenies now! But that’s a politician for you – picking up that which is fashionable and which will get them in the least amout of political trouble. Of course if he went against AGW theory he’d be blasted for being a slave to the oil companies, which is not the kind of press the Repubs wants around convention time, even while (ironically) McCain talks about drilling more.
There again, that is politics for you, more and more adrift from the real world as time goes by. Remember, these are the same breed who nearly 100 years ago brought us the War to end all wars (aka WWI), and we know how well that worked out right?
or whatever language they speek in India so they can get a job
In business that would be english.
Sarah Palin’s jet has landed in Dayton Ohio, so this might be McCains pick
ScienceDaily (Aug. 28, 2008) “Following last summer’s record minimum ice cover in the Arctic, current observations from ESA’s Envisat satellite suggest that the extent of polar sea-ice may again shrink to a level very close to that of last year.
Envisat observations from mid-August depict that a new record of low sea-ice coverage could be reached in a matter of weeks.”
Bold assumptions.
Dang – above post was for Pierre. Sorry.
Fred Jorgensen: “Yeah, Obama should get it. At least he does not come across
as a religious nutbar, whether the environmental religion or any other.”
His religion is socialism. Typical liberal who wants to do all things with other people’s money taken from them against their will by the threat of imprisonment.