McCain joins Dems on global warming hoax

Despite increasing scientific evidence from respected academicians and government climatologists, Democrats continue to maintain the fiction of global warming, and seek drastic federal remedies that will be very costly to the economy.

The world is entering a cycle of global cooling, at the moment, which is expected to last through 2012. Much to the chagrin of liberals like Al Gore, who refuses to debate global warming or face credible opposition on the same stage, objective climate data and the scientists who produce it, increasingly show that man's activity on earth has little or nothing to do with global warming or cooling. Expensive "solutions" to the alleged problem will have little effect one way or the other.

It is certainly to be expected that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton would not want to do anything to anger their base of Al Gore supporters this close to the election, and back all manner of costly Big Government solutions to deal with what they see as the problem of global warming.

Shocking, or at least very surprising, is that presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain has put in with the liberals, and called for stringent programs to curb global warming. Until recently, President George Bush has certainly been a global warming skeptic, and his administration has refused to sign the Kyoto accords.

The latest data and scientific evidence continues to move away from the global warming theory, making Bush's recent softness on the issue more a function of his weak approval ratings, and not his often stated convictions. For McCain "see ya and raise you one" is very poor politics, and guaranteed to drive the GOP base away at just the time he needs them the most.

Smart presidential politics says that you play to your base to get nominated, and to nail them down after it's clear you're going to be. You move to the center as the election draws near, to attract the uncommitted middle and a few defectors from the other party. This strategy assumes that you have your base nailed down.

McCain doesn't, as the continued polling in the teens for conservatives Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul, who aren't even out campaigning, shows. Joining the liberals on global warming makes this situation this early in the election worse, not better, with the base and for McCain.

Particularly if former Georgia Congressman Bob Barr is nominated by the Libertarian Party this weekend, the GOP base has an attractive alternative to McCain. He ignores this at his own peril.