While I prefer Michele Bachmann to be the GOP presidential candidate, I’m under no illusion that our candidate will probably be Mitt Romney, even if Rick Perry jumps in (you’d be wise to pick Bachmann as your running mate, Mitt). He’s a good, middle of the road Republican who will appeal to the moderates and squishes. Many of us are going to have to hold our noses and vote for him, because the alternative would destroy this country. And, I think Mitt realizes he has to appeal to Conservatives, too, which is why we get
Mitt Romney says he doesn’t think carbon pollution threatens human health and would not green-light EPA climate regulations if he were in the White House.
The GOP presidential candidate signaled the reversal to one of the Obama administration’s top environmental policies during a town hall meeting Thursday in Derry, N.H. This came about six weeks after he acknowledged during a campaign stop that global warming is real, a statement that won him praise from Al Gore.
“I think we may have made a mistake,” Romney said Thursday in response to a voter’s question about EPA regulating air pollution from coal plants under the Clean Air Act. “We have made a mistake is what I believe, in saying that the EPA should regulate carbon emissions. I don’t think that was the intent of the original legislation, and I don’t think carbon is a pollutant in the sense of harming our bodies.”
Mitt probably does believe in anthropogenic global warming, much like President Bush 43 did, which is fine, he’s entitled to his beliefs. What he isn’t entitled to is to force his beliefs in a fake science on the country, and, I think he gets that. I don’t believe that he is triangulating or, well, lying. Mitt does tend to speak what is on his mind, and rarely pulls punches. He stands up for his convictions. As long as he doesn’t push them on the rest of us.
