Chrisie baby sweet cheeks, this observation by GOPer Ingles is to your fund raising, as Niggerhead is to Perry's minority appeal.
"Thankfully, some are beginning to take a conservative approach rather than a populist approach. Governor Chris Christie, the effective, deficit-cutting governor of New Jersey, has joined presidential candidates Jon Huntsman and Mitt Romney in saying that climate change is real and is caused, in part, by human activity. That Christie said those things while removing his state from a cap-and-trade compact is no contradiction. Most of us conservatives think that cap-and-trade is the wrong answer."
Explaining this positon to the big doner/deniers will have sweet cheeks squirming like a gnat with his asshole stretched over a pin head.
Christie also carries a lot of baggage in addition to his board ass - corruption allegations. He like McCain will have a health issue hanging over his campaign - Christie already has had one heart scare so looking at his VP pick is as important as he. To placate the baggers - He has to go right and far right.
ReplyDeleteRomney, Perry, Bachmann, and especially Palin will not play second fiddle. 20% of voter say that they would not elect a Mormon - that hurts Huntsman. Gingrich has a lot of baggage too - way too much in fact. Cain - Cain is black. If the GOP thinks Cain can get the black vote - they are misinformed. In fact, Cain would hurt the ticket. Ron Paul is a fucking kook.
Your guess is good as mine...
Sarge
There are two things to be aware of regarding anthropomorphic climate change.
ReplyDeleteOne: it's for real.
Two: it isn't much more than an inconvenience for a majority of people; especially people in "first world" countries. So there is a disproportionality regarding cause and effect.
Or in others words, one group is doing it; the other is paying for it. Which leads to one group not wishing to make any changes and the other group not being able to.
Which of course makes it political dynamite. Handle very carefully, if at all.
Sarge,
ReplyDeleteIn the end, the whole of the GOP machine will follow any one of these people, in the end the only requirement is "not Obama".
NAC,
Amazingly, up to 50%±3 of repubs now believe in global warming, a jump of 20 to 30% in the last 6 months. Dems went from 70ish to 85ish. Something like mid 70's say they are willing to pay higher prices for energy and products to curb warming. Yet, we see congress will not stop working for the coal, oil and chemical companies. As you write, one group is not willing to pay their share, it's that same group we hear about lately, the top 10%, those job creators.
NAC,
ReplyDeleteI just saw another article saying the Repubs are only at 30% belief in global hotting, not the 50% I said above, not sure which is correct, but from the ones I know here, I would say both numbers are wrong, I think it's damn close to 100%.