Cutting carbon pollution should be a goal, it does not mean it is the cause of global warming, but it ain’t healthy, why not move in that direction.

right2bright on August 7, 2007 at 12:31 PM

right2bright do you realize that you exhale carbon dioxide and that plants need carbon dioxide in order to grow ? And in turn plant-life creates the oxygen that you breath ? For heaven sake… not even Al Gore has had the nerve to label carbon dioxide “unhealthy.” Its a building block of life. Do you know what you get if you take too much carbon dioxide out of the air? You get a DEAD world… now THAT is unhealthy !!

More CO2 causes plants to grow faster, thus more food for a hungry world. That’s why your plants like you to “talk” to them, they don’t care what you are saying… but they sure do like those puffs of CO2 being delivered to them. Please understand that CO2 in the atmosphere is a good thing…. and not the least bit harmful in any way whatsoever.

Al Gore goes after CO2 because that’s were the money is. Anything that involves any form of combustion gives off CO2. Al want to be able to tax all combustion… which is just about all human activity…. that’s why he doesn’t go after water vapor which is a thousand time more significant than CO2 as a “green house gas”. But you can’t tax water vapor, because after all, there is rain and evaporation and every type of natural process that puts water vapor into the air. Al can’t get away with taxing the rain… but he thinks he can get away with taxing the air we breath. Please don’t give into this nonsense… its a scam to take every liberty that we have.

The US alone is spending four billion dollars a year in global warming research… and while the budget has gotten larger over the years, this has been going on since the early 1990′s. Think of all the money wasted…. for an absolute fraud. We should be outraged and Al Gore should be arrested.

Also, I have yet to hear anyone outside of my conservative friends say Newt is “unelectable”. Funny that they say this at the same time they say that they think he is great and they would vote for him… Makes no sense to me.

RobertCSampson on August 7, 2007 at 2:16 PM

There are many others the same could be said of, and for the same reasons- there’s fact to back it up. I’m firmly opposed to McCain, Rudy or Mitt becoming the nominee, but I’d have no qualms about voting for Hunter. However, his inability to gain support suggests a lack of electability.

Ditto for Newt; his disapproval rating stands at 54%; we’re not just making up this electability problem. You and I would vote for him were he the nominee, but we’d almost certainly be in the minority nationally.

RobertCSampson on August 7, 2007 at 2:16 PM

I agree, how many “unelectable” people have we elected?

He would be the choice if they had real debates, and we knew that he would have a real debate with the Dems choice. But we know if he is in the mix, they would run and hide behind some organized, planned debate with a boring stupid tv journalist (there are a bunch of redunancy in that sentence).
Like Newt said, in history some of the presidential debates were two to three hours of pounding…he would win everyone of those against the weak, but well managed and marketed, dems.

apostle53 on August 7, 2007 at 11:34 AM

Once again, just allegations and no facts. Here is some substance for you.

http://www.newt.org/backpage.asp?art=2649

I think this will answer some of your accusations. After reading this (rather than the bumper stickers) you will have a better idea of the direction Newt wants to take.
He has not agreed on Gore about GW, what he wants is more global study. If global warming will continue (no matter the reason) than it will have global economic impact. There will be a migration of people, how will that effect the world economy? Cutting carbon pollution should be a goal, it does not mean it is the cause of global warming, but it ain’t healthy, why not move in that direction. If we would have pursued Atomic energy, like we should have, our carbon output would be much less than the foolish Kyoto treaty or what Calif wants to impose. He made that quite clear the other day on a HA blog.
He has not “dissed” the candidates, if you are referring to his “pygmy” comment, take some time and read what he said. His reference was to DeGaul and the size of the French government making the politions look like pygmy’s. His reference is almost always with historical base (being a history academic), so you must read the content…once again not the bumper stickers.
After reading the above reference to one of his writings, I think you will come away with a different belief. He certainly answers all of your accusations.

BTW, saying Hillary is a great campainer and a formible candidate is not supporting her, it is a fact. A force to be reckoned with. And his suggestion is the Republicans better get serious with serious candidates that attack the important issues. You deny that?

right2bright on August 7, 2007 at 10:01 AM

In the past few months, Newt has agreed with Al Gore on GW, dissed all Republican Candidates for POTUS,continualy dissed and undermined the current Republican President and his policies and made kind declarations to the candidacy of Hillery Clinton. I don’t view him as a loyal Republican.

Maxx on August 7, 2007 at 12:06 AM

Right on Maxx, if you can’t beat em….Newter em!

It would also help to move the weather monitoring devices that measure temperatures in this country away from parking lot, fire barrels and a/c units.

On top of all this, now there’s some nut in England saying that walking to the store damages the planet more than by taking a car. Next, someone will be saying that we all need to stop breathing.

A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day…so check back often….

Leftist “environmentalism” is built upon PAGAN philosophy: the idea that “nature” is supreme and man is a mere annoyance.

Christianity and most other religions adopt the contrary philosophy that the earth and all that is within it is for the enjoyment and betterment of man.

So the leftists work toward a world which is WORSE for mankind, while the rest of us work toward a world which will be BETTER for mankind.

Which is the better legacy for our children? (Hint: if you are a leftist, you DON’T CARE)!!

apostle53 on August 7, 2007 at 9:24 AM

Telling it like it is, telling the truth is not running to the other side. Hillary is going to win unless we get our act together, and even then it may be too late.

Newt makes some good points, we let the left kidnap the environment. That was the point he was making.

You are saying he is wrong, that we are the ones who have taken the lead on the environment? Show me where anyone thinks we are the “green” party.

And your argument is that if someone has moral problems, then he cannot be a conservative? So we have one conservative…Jesus?

And he is a traitor, a traitor to whom?

Lots of allegations, but no substance.

So this leaves us with another “right vs. left” argument that will never be resolved, especially by politicians. But conservatism isn’t primarily about politics, it’s about culture and individualism. Which leads me to prefer the label “Crunch Con.”

A Crunchy Con Manifesto
By Rod Dreher

1. We are conservatives who stand outside the conservative mainstream; therefore, we can see things that matter more clearly.

2. Modern conservatism has become too focused on money, power, and the accumulation of stuff, and insufficiently concerned with the content of our individual and social character.

3. Big business deserves as much skepticism as big government.

4. Culture is more important than politics and economics.

5. A conservatism that does not practice restraint, humility, and good stewardship—especially of the natural world—is not fundamentally conservative.

6. Small, Local, Old, and Particular are almost always better than Big, Global, New, and Abstract.

7. Beauty is more important than efficiency.

8. The relentlessness of media-driven pop culture deadens our senses to authentic truth, beauty, and wisdom.

9. We share Russell Kirk’s conviction that “the institution most essential to conserve is the family.”

10. Politics and economics won’t save us; if our culture is to be saved at all, it will be by faithfully living by the Permanent Things, conserving these ancient moral truths in the choices we make in our everyday lives.

You could probably be right. But Newt is still brilliant. I don’t think that he is so smart as to pull one over on us. Maybe he is. Let him get his ideas out, then we can observe, over time, what his true motivations are; whether ulterior or expressed.

and it will exclude the awful, awful, awful idea of Biofuel

Depends on what you mean. Biodiesel and E85 are both biofuel, but I’d wager Biodiesel (which you can make yourself from recycled cooking oil for about $0.80 per gallon) isn’t what you intended to knock. E85′s a different story, as producing it has a much greater impact on the price of foodstuffs.

I’d agree with flipflop that Newt (or someone else) could come up with an equally compelling slideshow to Mr. Gore’s, focusing only on (1) what happens to fuel prices when China and India’s consumer classes start driving; (2) how petrodollars wind up in the hands of Chavez, Ahmadinezhad, the House of Saud, et al.

I drive a hybrid, use CF bulbs, etc., for an entirely different set of reasons from those you’ll hear on the Left. I tell people I’m doing everything Gore wants me to do except buying his B.S.

How about Cold Fusion or a zero point module in every home.
Maybe next year.

- Cease funding of the global jihad
- Improve air quality (duh!)
- Move to sustainable/renewable energy sources

Seriously though, if the Left couldn’t bend environmentalism to help push their other agendas, I’d be willing to bet Republicans would be greener than the Dems. Tax credits for more efficient coal-burning power plants? What’s in it for the Left? I think it would kill Al Gore to say “I saved the planet from ‘Global Warming’ with tax credits and economic sense.”

Newt lost me when bought into the same garbage spewed by the Goreites