Crazy Pat Buchanan: Republicans need to run against global warming ... by gimleteye

Now there's a good idea: revive the Republican party by running against global warming. That little tidbit is incorporated within an editorial carried by The Miami Herald this morning. Why not just try campaigning against the setting sun: "We Republicans had light all day when we were in power. Now the Democrats claim we need twelve hours of darkness a day!"

In, "There's no choice but to stand and fight", Old Stand Pat writes, "More and more Americans are coming to conclude, after the record cold temperatures in many cities this winter, that global warning is a crock -- that there is no conclusive proof it is happening, no conclusive proof man is the cause, no conclusive proof it would be a calamity for us."

That's just baloney. There are signals of climate change all around us. One of the anticipated effects of climate change is global weirding, ie. our current drought in south Florida-- the most intense since record keeping started. (Here is a good website, with many links, for perplexed doubters.)

Buchanan reminds me of recently departed William F. Buckley: both were very articulate, but the few things they said that made sense (in Buchanan's case, he was right about the distortion and weakening of the US economy through loss of manufacturing to low cost labor nations) were surrounded by heaps of nuttiness. Republicans heeding Buchanan, are like this recent New Yorker cartoon and an excellent proposed caption in its weekly contest:


"I was only curious, what's your excuse?"