John McCain is a shirk

He is apparently swilling the kool-aid:

Republican John McCain, reaching out to both independents and green-minded social conservatives, argues that global warming is undeniable and the country must take steps to bring it under control while adhering to free-market principles.

In remarks prepared for delivery Monday at a Portland, Ore., wind turbine manufacturer, the presidential contender says expanded nuclear power must be considered to reduce carbon-fuel emissions. He also sets a goal that by 2050, the country will reduce carbon emissions to a level 60 percent below that emitted in 1990.

"For all of the last century, the profit motive basically led in one direction - toward machines, methods and industries that used oil and gas," said McCain. "Enormous good came from that industrial growth, and we are all the beneficiaries of the national prosperity it built. But there were costs we weren't counting, and often hardly noticed. And these terrible costs have added up now, in the atmosphere, in the oceans and all across the natural world."

The Arizona senator promised to challenge China and India, two economic rivals who are fueling their challenge to U.S. market supremacy with heavily polluting fuels such as coal, gas and oil.

"For all of its historical disregard of environmental standards, it cannot have escaped the attention of the Chinese regime that China's skies are dangerously polluted, its beautiful rivers are dying, its grasslands vanishing, its coastlines receding and its own glaciers melting," said McCain.

He also took a swipe at President Bush, who balked at the beginning of its term at signing the Kyoto global warming protocols. McCain said he would return to the negotiating table.

"I will not shirk the mantle of leadership that the United States bears. I will not permit eight long years to pass without serious action on serious challenges. I will not accept the same dead-end of failed diplomacy that claimed Kyoto. The United States will lead and will lead with a different approach - an approach that speaks to the interests and obligations of every nation," he said.

It is going to be oh so damned hard to vote for this guy.

Comments

[tim]

“It is going to be oh so damned hard to vote for this guy.”

No doubt Rick but come Nov. just pull the lever for McCain, go home & take a shower, have a beer, call the mental health hotline, whatever gets ya’ thru it. The alternative, (No Morgan, staying home doesn’t count) is WAY worse.

[Morgan K Freeberg]

Color me vindicated.

See, he shirks on this, he'll shirk on the "strict constructionist judges" that the stalwarts keep touting. In a heartbeat. I've never seen a strong indication that he won't.

Not that I'm prepared to put in an all-nighter arguing about it or anything...the way I see it, our fate was sealed shut when the guy whose face is on the tee shirt I'm wearing now (was in a Die Hard movie, former Senator from Tennessee) dropped out, four months ago.

Here's the thing, though. You want to try ot pull the fat out of the fire, pressure this guy toward the center, away from the fringe left gutter -- it defeats the purpose to make a hard commitment to vote for him. Candidates don't make concessions to voting blocs that are loyal to them. It stinks like rotten meat, but there it is.

[EricTheRed]

He also took a swipe at President Bush, who balked at the beginning of its term at signing the Kyoto global warming protocols. McCain said he would return to the negotiating table.

"I will not shirk the mantle of leadership that the United States bears. I will not permit eight long years to pass without serious action on serious challenges. I will not accept the same dead-end of failed diplomacy that claimed Kyoto. The United States will lead and will lead with a different approach ..."

Umm, on July 25, 1997 ninety-five senators voted YEA to NOT sign the Kyoto protocol. John McCain was among them. And the president at the time was Clinton, not Bush.

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=105&session=1&vote=00205

If this is McCain's way of appealing to the conservative base, he's doing a real crappy job so far. God help us no matter who is elected president in November.

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[EricTheRed]

BTW, just saw McCain on Regis and Kelly. Say what you will about the man, he knows how to woo an audience.