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Not One More Dime Until McCain Revises his Energy and Environmental Policies

by GOP_Rebel | June 7, 2008 at 4:04 PM
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That's what I told the charming young volunteer from the RNC who just called requesting another donation to match the ones we made last month and the month before that and the month prior to that, back to January.  Not one more dime until Jonn McCain decides to lead from the top down to allow drilling in ANWR and block any global warming legislation until we have an unimpeded permit process for building as many nuclear power plants along the lines of the French and Japanese models as it takes to ensure uninterrupted power in our future.  Not one more dime until we determine to repair and strengthen the power grid and provide drought crisis management plans and security measures against sabotage.

"Yes ma'am, but if the Democrats take the White House then we won't have any chance of implementing the things you talk about".  To which I replied, "right, but what chance will we have of the Republicans circumventing the veto pen of a Republican President who is either against or has absolutely no agenda regarding these vital issues?".  "Ma'am, I'm just a citizen like you, I don't know what I can do except to tell you that we need your help to offset the millions that the Democrats are going to raise against us."  I thanked him for his public service, told him he was doing a wonderful job, and wished him the best of luck in his efforts to engage continuing contributions from other Republicans. 

I will vote for McCain in November, but I will divert every penny that I've consistently donated to him and the RNC into my gas tank until he rewrites the playbook on energy and environmental reform.  For now, I'm voting with my wallet.

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Well I Already Sent In Lots of Dimes

Submitted by RedMango on Sat, 06/07/2008 - 22:47.

But you're right, of all the things I have reservation about McCain's issues is his embrace of the Global Warming mythology.  It's one thing to pursue policies to clean the air and preserve national forests (old-school Teddy Roosevelt environmentalism), it's disturbing that he is pursuing policies in the name of Global Warming.  Congressional Dems already pulled their global warming bill today.  McCain should eventually follow.

 

Yes, I would suspect...

Submitted by davidfarrar on Sat, 06/07/2008 - 23:36.

McCain to follow the Congressional Democrats...now where is the surprise in that?

 

ex animo

davidfarrar

I Hope

Submitted by GOP_Rebel on Sat, 06/07/2008 - 23:44.

that Mango means McCain will eventually follow us, not them.  I hope Mango means he's currently pandering.  Please. 

Yes! By Jove, you've really got it.

Submitted by GOP_Rebel on Sat, 06/07/2008 - 23:21.

Thanks Red, I am so happy that you've distinguished between TR's conservationism and the Marxist environmental movement.  Look at this review of John Bellamy Foster's "Marx's Ecology" and the entire scheme is fully exposed:

“In Marx's Ecology, John Bellamy Foster brilliantly expands our understanding of Marx's thought, proving that Marx understood alienation to encompass human estrangement from the natural world. Foster criticizes the current version of environmentalism that equates Marxism and modernity with the degradation of nature and points towards a sophisticated and less nostalgic environmentalism which sees capitalism, not modernity, as the essential problem to be addressed.”

I'll repeat the essence of this threat to our very way of life:  Capitalism is the essential problem to be addressed.  Well, by God it would have been addressed by bankrupting our entire economy circa 2012 had Barbara Boxer had her way with the Senate this week. 

The green doctrine that nonhuman things have "objective value" descends from Marxist theory of objective value.  As Mark LaRochelle writes in "Environmentalism is Marxism":

To be accepted as an "environmentalist" nowadays, it is not sufficient to seek to implement the most effective means of conserving natural resources and minimizing environmental harm. It is necessary to accept the dogma that free people are self-destructive, and that statist aggression through global nationalization and totalitarian control of resources and behavior (including reproduction) is necessary to restrain their self-destructive tendencies.

Does anyone else find it alarmingly hypocritical that the only nations who are required to cap carbon emissions are Western industrialized nations?  I see cap and trade as an opportunity to redistribute wealth, not to "save the planet" - especially when so many scientists believe that water vapor is a more serious "greenhouse gas" than carbon emissions.  No, there's something very wrong with this picture and I want no part of it. 

 

Not sure if voting with your wallet will work

Submitted by FiveFtThree on Tue, 06/10/2008 - 01:26.

Do you think that the people calling for GOP donations take down your refusal to donate based on a specific set of demands?  If not, then your voting with your wallet now, but later giving your actual vote to McCain in November sends a mixed message, and lets the GOP know that you will vote Republican even if you disagree with the party's positions.