Newt Wimps Out

His political advisors probably warned him it would hurt his candidancy if he debated Kerry on Global Warming. I think it would have helped. But now we know what he is made of.

In a Capitol Hill debate about global warming touted by its moderator as a “smackdown” between former House speaker Newt Gingrich and Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, Gingrich praised Kerry’s recently released book about environmentalism, acknowledged that global warming is real, and offered what amounted to an unexpected apology for his party’s inaction on curtailing greenhouse gas emissions.

“I’m not going to stand up here and defend our failure to lead,” said Gingrich, who is considering a run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008 and plans to release a book in the fall burnishing his environmental credentials. “There has to be a green conservatism.”

The standing-room-only debate, staged yesterday in an ornate Senate hearing room, offered an indication that even diehard conservatives like Gingrich, who stepped down as speaker in 1998, are abandoning their skepticism on global warming. As recently as two years ago, Gingrich ridiculed the notion that humans are causing the earth to warm, but yesterday he said the evidence was “sufficient.”

Pretty pathetic. Especially when the weather is doing a good job of showing global warming to be a joke. 

I’m all for conservation.

We SHOULD be using less fuel than we are now and we SHOULD be a lot more careful in conserving electricity.

That said, politicians on both sides are playing the GW card for the GW-loonies (GWL’s are replacing BDS as the main mental defect in the political fringe)?

Not gonna get anybody MY vote.

Clean air and water, YES!

Using GW as an excuse to raise my taxes?  NO!

Posted by  on  04/11  at  10:08 AM

James,
Just noticing the ‘google ads’ on your page.  And I know you have nothing to do with what they put up.

They are:
Clinton Climate Change
Barack Obama in 2008
Meet Democratic singles
Bacalles earns a “D+”
CA Global Warming

Just found this interesting.

Posted by  on  04/11  at  11:30 AM

They respond to content, so if you mention Clinton, they throw up ads with that name. But since they aren’t making me much money, i will probably get rid of them. I am also planning to redesign my site again anyway.

Posted by James Hudnall  on  04/11  at  12:06 PM

That’s a disappointing move on Newt’s part. This will only give fuel to the enviro-nuts assertions that they are right when former critics back down and admit defeat to avoid a political backlash. It’s PC bullying, pure and simple.

Posted by Paul T  on  04/11  at  05:07 PM
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