Can we stop calling John McCain an environmentalist now? This is from electoral-vote.com: “John McCain has had a bit of trouble reconciling his conservative views on abortion and gun control with his much more liberal views on immigration and global warming.”
John McCain does not have “liberal views” on global warming. He does admit that global warming is real, which has raised the ire of global warming deniers such as Rush Limbaugh. But that’s not a liberal position. That’s just a realistic position. We don’t define what counts as a liberal position as anything to the left of Rush Limbaugh. The liberal position on global warming would be that we have to repond the problem and quickly. That’s not the McCain position.
McCain has a score of zero from the League of Conservation Voters. He says that he might support cap and trade programs as long as they’re not mandatory. At least he thinks he does; he’s not quite sure. As long as its not mandatory? If it’s not mandatory then it won’t work. What other laws aren’t mandatory? The entire point of a law is that it’s mandatory. I guess un-mandatory laws are just part of being a maverick.
McCain wants to repeal the gas tax; he wants to start offshore drilling, and drilling in Alaska for oil. And then he makes an ad about how oil is like, so bad, man; it’s so bad that we’ve got to drill for more of it! How exactly does that make him an environmentalist?
Of course, John McCain does have a TV ad where he stands on a mountaintop and breathes in the fresh clean mountain air. Maybe that’s what counts for being an environmentalist.
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