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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Mark (07:14:28) wrote: “I believe most liberals feel this way and I believe that Kyoto and AGW are being used to redistribute jobs and wealth from developed nations to developing nations.”
You’re spot on, Mark! But it also involves expanding the authority and governance of the UN, funding the unfunded pension liabilities in the European countries (finally cementing the EU’s power structure as distributor), “powerizing” the greenies throughout the world, resurrecting the failed media as a major propaganda tool, and making our politicians permanently in office with all the payoffs they get from industrial giants feeding off this nonsense!
Jack Koenig, Editor
The Mysterious Climate Project
http://www.climateclinic.com
It’s Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, 44 years old. NBC just confirmed! I have no idea of her climate ideas yet.
Smart move by McCain. You gotta hand it to him, he knows how to play his hand.
Palin reportedly had an approval rating above 90% as of last summer. Avidly pro-life. Former head of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. Perfect combo.
Game, set, match.
From Sarah Palin’s web site:
“Develop a conservative alternative to the Kyoto protocol, to protect our environment, without damaging our economy”
What does that mean/
Your bears and your Arctic Baby Ice just developed enhanced symbolic meaning. Palin may hunt moose, but McCain is hunting pumas, and energy security is going to be the big issue this year. Thank heavens Baby Ice understands its importance and will survive, through sheer, gut-wrenching political will if nothing else.
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That means we will never sign on to Kyoto.
This is Off Topic but something Anthony may want to follow up on.
I was reading the home page of ICECAP and tried to follow the link on the article titled One Hot Topic.
http://icecap.us/index.php
Aug 24, 2008
One Hot Topic
By John Takeuchi, Meteorologist Interview in the Vacaville, CA Reporter
I found that the link has been pulled so I did a search and found that it had been replaced with the following.
http://www.thereporter.com/letters/ci_10291342
Writer’s facts not accurate
Article Launched: 08/24/2008 07:41:26 AM PDT
Will Ozier
Vacaville
Is this censorship or WATT? Notice that the original author was a Meteorologist but no credentials are required for the follow up. It looks like all he did was cut and paste the IPCC propoganda. He even goes on to use ALla GORE as an example to justify concensus as good science.
“Sir, you are no scientist”
This seems to be a smart move in the sense it will attract some Hillary females from the Dumbocrat Party. But from my perspective, I want to know the details of her positions on the environment (in particularly “Global Warming” ), immigration, and healthcare. From what I’m hearing about the positions taken by McCaca on the latter two, I’m not encouraged… especially in light of his ignorance on alleged AGW.
Jack Koenig, Editor
The Mysterious Climate Project
http://www.climateclinic.com
In England I have emailed our own politicians, the Clinton Campaign plus Worldwidlife…and our “Green” paper the Independent.
I have pointed out that there has been no warming for best part of ten years and that there has been a reduction in the temp level records due to the work of Anthony Watts and Steve Macintyre. Have also mentioned Prof Richard Lintzen and of course the Aqua satellite.
If they had the intellectual and scientific facts to shoot me down they would.
It would be like swatting a fly.
They don’t…because they can’t.
We are heading for cooling and the Aqua satellte findings have, or should have stopped the AGW’s in their tracks.
It has’nt because they have dug a very big hole and jumped straight in.
Not sure how much longer this farce wil carry on but when a very respected political journalist in the UK recently called CO2 “a pollutant”……we still have a very long way to go.
People in the USA have still to get their heads around the fact that on the morning of 911 there was a massive air defence excercise taking place that lead to the eastern seaboard of America being virtually undefended that…wonder who knew?
If you think I am implying Americans are thick…I am not. On the morning of the London bombings 7th July 2005 there was an anti-terror excercise taking place…it was based around bombs at three underground stations and invoilved 1000 people.
Guess which three stations were involved?
Yep…you got it…the same ones that suffered the explosions.
If our populations cant deal with this…what chance a deeply involved subject like the climate!!!!!!!!
An executive in an executive position. What a novel idea.
Won’t happen as long as most Americans believe the hype. A candidate has no hope of even being nominated who doesn’t toe the environMENTAL line.
RE: Paulin’s quote:
“Develop a conservative alternative to the Kyoto protocol, to protect our environment, without damaging our economy”
This means take control of our own energy policy, instead of getting locked into an international agreement, that is created for the sole purpose of giving un-elected UN power-brokers control of our energy usage.
I am starting to think that voting for McCain, and hoping for his early demise, might be my choice.
veep-pick Sarah Palin in 1984 – babe credentials confirmed
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g100/dayglored/Sarah-Palin-Miss-Wasilla-1984.jpg
In fact, possibly TOO hot to attract many Hillary supporters.
Russ R. (08:52:21) wrote: “I am starting to think that voting for McCain, and hoping for his early demise, might be my choice.”
I believe that thought will cross many minds… especially the Hillary people. And considering the raucous lifestyle McCaca has led, it may just be the their best choice in getting a woman as president.
Somehow or another, I’ll bet this turn of events will thrown the Osama camp into a turmoil!
Jack Koenig, Independent Voter… very, very Independent
This election just went into a cocked hat! If Palin is brought on as a teammate and her views respected, then Hansen, Gore, et al will be shaking in their boots. From what I read, this lady could put Billory, Pilosi and Reid under the table. She did it with the intrenched Republican Network in Alaska, took on the oil companies, and closed the checkbook. As VP she’d be the head of NASA – right? We could even get some good science out of those folks if they haven’t forgotten how.
While McCain’s politics sometimes don’t agree with mine, the man can listen to other views and change his. (Lieberman is a good example of that, like it or not)
I think this election will be a real bruiser! Might be the most fun we’ve (the electorate) has had in a bunch of years. (Oh, yea, just to drive the animal rights folks nuts, this lady shoots Bambi for dinner)
Oops, pressed go too fast, just caught my grammer error. Dang it all…
MJB
Dan McCune (08:13:38) :
John-X:
May you receive a bag of unscrubbed coal this X-mas(pardon the aliteration) for starting that meme!
I now admit before God and Country my above pledge(to vote not) was a sound signifing nothing.
Bruce Cobb: “through 8 years with idiot Bush, who has about bankrupted the country just for starters.”
How soon we forget! We we doing just fine until the Dems took over Congress 19 months ago. Since then it’s been all down hill.
I didn’t hear Sarah Palin didn’t say anything about GW in her VP acceptance speech.
Thanks for that Tom! You are so right. Bush inherited both a contracting economy and terrorist threat from Clinton both of which he handled admirably. Many other things I disagree with, but things didn’t start going terribly bad until the dems took over Congress.
On Gov. Palin, I see this quote from Newsmax:
“A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I’m not one though who would attribute it to being man-made. ”
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/sarah_palin_vp/2008/08/29/126139.html
I noticed a couple of comments here referring to President Carter, which reminded me of the recent Carter audio byte making the rounds: Jimmy Carter calls Obama a “colored boy.” And yes, he actually said ‘boy.’ I wonder why we don’t hear that clip on the nightly news? We sure would if a Republican said it [and IANAR].
Regarding Palin, she’s stated that she is in favor of drilling for domestic oil. But we have to understand that someone in her current position as a candidate can’t take as strong stand as some of us would like– there’s an election to win, first. But the fact that she is in favor of drilling for more oil says a lot, and it aligns her much more closely with the average American family, which is being crushed by the current high gas prices.
Media was so all over O & B they never saw this coming; in fact, they probably weren’t even looking at all.
Palin makes Hillary look like part of the good ol’ boy network. Someone to put Boxer in her place.
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.
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Huh?
There’s nothing remotely libertarian about any of those positions.
I couldn’t be happier! “McCain/Palin 2008”. She has been my choice for VP, since day one. She is one “smart/cool lady”. Hopefully as VP, she can have an “positive influence” on educating McCain on the “loopholes” in this “AGW SCAM”. McCain, like most politician’s, has not been exposed to “Truth in the HIGH TOWERS of Congress”. Many of them don’t understand anything that doesn’t put $$$$$$’s in their pockets.