AL GORE “WARMS” MITT ROMNEY?
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Election 2012: GOP presidential front-runner Mitt Romney has a new, not-so-welcome friend: Al Gore, who extolled the candidate’s promise to fight hard against global warming. Does Gore think Romney can’t win?
The former vice president, who has devoted his post-electoral career to climate change fanaticism, this week gave the former Massachusetts governor kudos on the issue closest to Gore’s heart.
“Good for Mitt Romney,” Gore blogged Wednesday afternoon. “While other Republicans are running from the truth, he is sticking to his guns in the face of the anti-science wing of the Republican Party.”
At a recent New Hampshire town hall meeting, Romney “stuck to the position he has held for many years — that he believes the world is getting warmer and that humans are contributing to it,” said the Washington Post.
A year and a half ago, the Climate-gate scandals showed that “scientists” — actually, government-funded global warming activists — were skewing climate data and trying to silence climate change skeptics.
But Romney’s campaign says he can’t reconsider global warming because he’s already flip-flopped on too much else — including abortion and government-run health care. Democrats such as DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz are having a field day accusing Romney of being a chameleon who has to “debate with himself on where he is on any issue.”
Romney also has no economic plan to speak of, and liberal New Republic writer Jonathan Chait blogged Monday it’s because doing so would “undercut the political salience of his managerial reputation.” In other words, “he’ll be running as the advocate of a specific program rather than the guy who will do for America what he did at Bain Capital” as a successful “turnaround artist.”
Romney’s experience in private equity is not to be discounted; time and again he took broken companies and fixed them. And there’s no question Romney would be a far better president than Barack Obama.
There is something disquieting, however, about a liberal like Gore issuing a public bravo for the Republican front-runner. Could it be that Democrats fear Romney’s more ideas-focused rivals for the GOP nod? Do they want Romney to stay strong so a Chris Christie or Rick Perry doesn’t enter the race, generating excitement for Reaganite grass-roots voters?
One of Ronald Reagan’s favorite quotes was Victor Hugo’s observation that “no army can stop an idea whose time has come.” And the idea Reagan had in mind was a less-interventionist government creating “a climate in which the entrepreneurial genius of the private sector can do what it does best — namely, create new wealth, new possibilities of employment.”
Some Democrats seem to be convinced Romney doesn’t stand for that — and therefore want him to be the one to face President Obama in November 2012.
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