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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I think I would prefer Michael Palin. Though I wouldn’t vote for McCain in any case.
“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. ”
Talk about a non-statement. A warmer climate would certainly make Alaska a nicer place to live. A colder climate could make it unlivable.
I can’t vote for McCain but the future looks less bleak now.
Palin’s Op Ed from the NYT Jan 2008 on climate modeling and polar bears
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/05/opinion/05palin.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=%22sarah+palin%22&st=nyt&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Another quote from Palin:
http://www.thenextright.com/goprebel/drill-drill-drill-larry-kudlows-interview-with-alaska-governor-sarah-palin
Kudlow:Governor Palin, thank you ever so much for coming on. We appreciate it. I want to start with this, it’s an oddball question. I mean, Senator McCain says it’s too pristine to drill. Senator Obama says the drilling won’t work. What is your response to this? How do you fight back?
Palin: Well it will work. And Senator McCain is wrong on that issue. He’s right on a whole lot of other issues, so thank goodness that he’s understanding and evolving with his position on OCS [Outer Continental Shelf]. So that’s encouraging. I think he’s going to evolve into, eventually, supporting ANWR opening also.
The UN organization IPCC is driving the climate hype through a corrupt government system. They were formed with the purpose of identifying and combating man made climate change before there was any real evidence.
They would have no purpose for existence if they didn’t find climate change so after only 2 years they had identified global warming and CO2 as a serious threat and began recommending formation of more organizations and committees which did the same.
Today billions of dollars are spent around the world by government organizations who’s entire survival depends on man made global warming being true. This had the necessary effect of corrupting the science beyond believability.
For more information you can go here.
http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/environment/anthropogenic-global-warming/
“There’s nothing remotely libertarian about any of those positions.”
The list was intended to loosely itemize that governor’s practice, not his philosophy, which I intended to imply, was at variance with his stated positions. I may have failed in the latter.
I was under the impression, libertarians were socially moderate to liberal and fiscally moderate to conservative. That impression was gained solely by my captive presence during “Prairie Dogging” and not by examination of any platform, and I maintain no illusion to political sophistication.
For that matter, people here in Purple America don’t call me moderate where I can’t imagine being otherwise characterized. Pardon me if I have blundered in some way. It was a throwaway remark.
Palin is a skeptic. “She doubts global warming stems from human activity” according to http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/sarah_palin_vp/2008/08/29/126139.html
Well that’s good news.
She’s got experience, looks, legs – and my vote!
Tom: 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.
Doing fine? I think not. Let’s see, he invaded Iraq under false pretenses (he lied) to the tune of over a half trillion and counting, not to mention some 4,000 American lives lost, and many more wounded physically and psychologically, which will cost untold billions more for many years. For that alone, he should have been impeached.
Well, Bruce, I must thoroughly disagree. I don’t consider what dubya did to have been lying, and I think that one has to consider that Iraq was a charnel pit, a slow-motion genocide in action (unlike, say, Iran). Yes, the war could have been handled better, but I’m sure you know the long and sad history of American (et al.) military screwups.
I think one must measure the sad consequences of having invaded with the horrible consequences of having done nothing for a decade. As Tony Blair put it, “Doing nothing IS doing something.”
Bruce,
You went from accusing Bush of bankrupting the country to being a murdering dictator. Apparently you can accept that the blame for an economic turndown is and should be placed on the Congress over trhe last year and a half. Afterall, it is Congress that handles all the money issues for the Country. One the other point, the greatness of our system is that no one man can do what you accuse the President of doing without the consent of Congress. In addition, had any President not acted upon the information that was available they would have been direlict in their duties to this Country. If Saddam was still in power and unchallenged for all these years, where do you think the world would be now? Your monday morning quarterbacking only sounds like sour grapes.
“not to mention some 4,000 American lives lost, and many more wounded physically and psychologically, which will cost untold billions more for many years. For that alone, he should have been impeached.” Bruce Cobb
Bingo!
Bruce,
BDS may not be a killer but it does the sufferer no good and it would appear a matter of volition.
You report as fact much one might dismiss summarily, and have evidence to offer for doing so–in a different forum.
Tom: Come now, I didn’t say he was a dictator, nor did I use the word “murder”. You are using AGWer tactics of debate. Shame on you.
Furthermore, what “information” are you talking about? WMD’s, nukes, ties to Al Quaida, all of which turned out to be not only false, by the way, but were, in fact lied about.
You are simply being disingenuous about Congress. They believed the lies, and once we were involved, really didn’t have much choice other than to approve funding. Nice try.
“I didn’t say he was a dictator” Bruce Cobb
Well, he can declare anyone of us an “enemy combatant” at his sole discretion and have us imprisoned indefinitely and TORTURED. I call that a dictator.