Just read an article about McCain and a speech he will be giving on combating global warming. When I finished, I realized more than ever that McCain is continuing to sell-out the conservative base by appealing to those who believe in this global warming theory which I and many other conservatives consider a huge fraud.
So McCain picks up a few new liberal voters and he loses some more conservative voters. What a grand strategy, McCain.
I thought that McCain had learned his lesson. The libs will not vote for him in November, no matter how far left he shows himself to be. They already have a liberal candidate named Obama.
I realize that many conservatives will vote for McCain because "he is better than Hillary or Obama". My question to them is, since McCain is pulling further and further left.... can you still tell the difference between McCain and Obama?
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/12/mccain.climate/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
So McCain picks up a few new liberal voters and he loses some more conservative voters. What a grand strategy, McCain.
I thought that McCain had learned his lesson. The libs will not vote for him in November, no matter how far left he shows himself to be. They already have a liberal candidate named Obama.
I realize that many conservatives will vote for McCain because "he is better than Hillary or Obama". My question to them is, since McCain is pulling further and further left.... can you still tell the difference between McCain and Obama?
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/12/mccain.climate/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
(CNN) -- Kicking off a week-long push seen as outreach to independent and Democratic voters in crucial swing states, John McCain on Monday will deliver a speech outlining his vision for combating global warming.
"We stand warned by serious and credible scientists across the world that time is short and the dangers are great," McCain will say in Portland, Oregon, according to prepared remarks. "The most relevant question now is whether our own government is equal to the challenge."
McCain's commitment to fight global warming puts him at odds with some Republicans in Congress and with the Bush administration, which has not made climate change a top priority.
McCain's stance on carbon emissions places him closer on the environmental spectrum to Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
In his speech, the Arizona senator will propose capping carbon emissions incrementally, with the goal of returning to 1990 emission levels by the year 2020 using a cap-and-trade program.
Such a program would cap greenhouse gas emissions at certain levels, and allow more efficient energy producers to sell off emissions permits to other, less efficient companies, thereby creating market-wide incentives to reduce carbon output.
McCain believes this system will encourage companies to seek out more efficient means of production.
"As never before, the market would reward any person or company that seeks to invent, improve or acquire alternatives to carbon-based energy," he will say.
McCain has also released a television ad in Oregon connecting climate change to increased destructive weather phenomena like hurricanes. The spot features a McCain voiceover saying, "It's not just a greenhouse gas issue, it's a national security issue."
McCain will also speak about the environment on Tuesday in the neighboring state of Washington. Oregon and Washington are among several potential battleground states in the West, including California, Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada, where voters count the environment as a top issue.