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An article in the American Spectator, a conservative news magazine, questions South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s new-found love of the “fight global warming” crowd. Is it weird for a Southern Republican governor to choose Al Gore over common sense?
Yes.
But then again, when has Sanford ever been anything other than “weird”?
You might think [Minnesota Gov. Tim] Pawlenty and Sanford are on board the global warming bandwagon because of political considerations, but they sound like true believers.
Pawlenty said as he announced his climate change commission, “our global climate is warming, at least in part due to the energy sources we use. We cannot solve it by ourselves, but we need to lead and do our part. We also need to push for an effective national and international effort.”
Meanwhile Sanford said he has been personally touched by global warming, as he explained in his executive order:
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In general conservatives earn their stripes by being able to set aside the experiential and anecdotal, and instead make decisions based on actual data and evidence. Pawlenty and Sanford have bought the “human cause is incontrovertible” side of the global warming debate despite legitimate scientific challenges to the prevailing wisdom.
Fine. But is it too much to ask that the chosen solution-provider prove that his plans will actually do anything about the alleged problem? [PAUL CHESSER - American Spectator]
Mr. Chesser, a North Carolina-based journalist no less, lost most of his credibility in the first sentence of this piece when he intimated that some characterize Sanford as a “moderate.” Really? Since when?
Mr. Chesser may believe Sanford to be a moderate based on his environmental position (which of course Chesser doesn’t have any record of, only the fact that CCS is somehow involved in the process he’s writing about), but he is on a lonely island in that regard.
The fact that Chesser feels the need to instill bias (stupid moderate!) in the typical American Spectator reader with his first sentence indicates pretty clearly how seriously he expects the substance of his argument to be taken on its own.
There go my hopes for a DECENT, SENSIBLE Carolina boy in the White House someday. There is still hope for my long lost cousin, Jim DeMint.
OR MAYBE THIS IS A TEST FIT FOR SANFORD OF THE FENCE POST HE’LL NEED UP HIS WAZOO TO SEEK LARGER ORIFICE.
(HA! Sorry…I just made that one up typing here…but I’m KEEPING that pun!)
Mark Sanford wants to be vice president. He will do anyhting to be VP. He will french kiss Al Gore to be VP.
But he fails at everyhting he does…except promoting Mark Sanford. So as the state crumles under the high taxes and wasteful government…the Gov says it aint my fault…
Mark S for VP…atleast he would be outta here.
Here’s an idea that I’m just going to throw out there… Why don’t you actually READ the executive order? (Gasp!)
Quoted from the link to the executive order that you mentioned but did not accurately report:
‘Given its possible implications for insurance costs and the state’s development, among other things, it strikes me as very appropriate that we conduct a thorough review and that we be open to remedies based on market principles, private property rights and conservative ideology which could in turn protect our quality of life for generations to come,” Gov. Sanford said.’
Excuse me… I quoted the press release, not the executive order. But the effect is the same. The Governor has not proposed any government regulation in his executive order whatsoever, and he has in no way violated the rights of individuals as those cut from Al Gore’s cloth seek to do. As such, comparing Mark Sanford to Al Gore is intellectually dishonest.