Fiasco Highlights Republican Absurdity
Cliff
"Palin Global Warming Fiasco Highlights Republican Absurdity "
By Bill Hare
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The latest running debate between Al Gore and Sarah Palin reveals once more the
absurdity behind today's Republican Party, which looms increasingly as a far
right pressure group rather than a viable political entity.
The Republicans indicated the direction where they were heading when Republican
National Committee Chairman Michael Steele dared to speak of right wing talk
show host Rush Limbaugh as an "entertainer," which was construed to mean that he
was undermining his stature as a serious political analyst.
A furious Limbaugh demanded an apology. The blustery talk show host had
declared himself to be the titular head of the Republican Party. Generally that
title is conferred on the party's last presidential nominee, in this case
Senator John McCain of Arizona.
It was soon learned how much clout Limbaugh wields on the Republican Party as a
penitent Steele issued an apology. This prompted Limbaugh to reiterate his
claim as titular party head.
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The aforementioned contretemps prompted many political analysts to conclude that
the Republicans had degenerated into a far right, insulated pressure group with
an accent on insults and opposition to any form of constructive change with no
concern about developing policy.
This charge and the concern registered within it was recently substantiated by
comments from Sarah Palin on global warming. As Republican vice presidential
nominee Palin and her supporters alleged that gentle interviewer Katie Couric
had engaged in ambush journalism by asking her which newspapers she read, to
which she had no answer.
Could she not have thought of her own Alaskan newspaper, the Anchorage Daily
News, or perhaps the New York Times?
The same Palin who could not think of one newspaper she read issued an instant
challenge to a unified contingent of some of the world's most brilliant minds,
some 47 Nobel Prize science winners along with scores of others in the
international scientific community.
A few e-mails from East Anglia University that involved more spleen venting than
intellectual substance were presented by Palin and her allies as refutation of
Al Gore and others pleading the case for immediate action in global warming
policy before it is too late.
Demagogues took the Palin critique and ran with it. At a recent Gore book
signing one critic of the angry tea bagger variety was seen being escorted out
of the store after shrieking that the former vice president was a proven fraud.
As Gore and other rational analysts have pointed out, the melting Arctic polar
ice caps provide proof positive of ongoing global warming.
....
Needless to say, the "scholars" of the Palin community, including Republican
titular head Limbaugh, who has contended for years that global warming is a made
up scare tactic of far left political extremists, will never consider melting
ice cap evidence.
That is what the school of Palin-Limbaugh-Fox adherents love, accepting what
they wish without devoting a scant second to factual analysis.
....
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tankfixer
Clhuprich...@aoltmovetheperiodc.om says...
> As Gore and other rational analysts have pointed out, the melting Arctic polar
> ice caps provide proof positive of ongoing global warming.
>
No sane person uses the name of Al Gore and rational in the same
passage..
Cliff
He's too smart for you, eh?
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Cliff
tankfixer
Clhuprich...@aoltmovetheperiodc.om says...
Al Gore smart ?
I'd have to ask the professors of the what, 4 universities he flunked
out of that question...
SaPeIsMa
"tankfixer" <paul.c...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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You can flunk out for many reasons from University
Sometimes it's because you're not smart
Sometimes it's because you're smart
Sometimes it's because you're way too smart
And then there are all the people who are as dumb as rocks and still manage
not to flunk out of university
Al Gore was smart enough to get where he was
Not everyone has enough brains to even achieve that much
Killing, Inc.
> "tankfixer" <paul.carr...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> > In article <oe8ki59u9rheb6clume92478qifr9q8...@4ax.com>,
> > Clhuprichguessw...@aoltmovetheperiodc.om says...
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> >> On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:02:19 -0800, tankfixer <paul.carr...@gmail.com>
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> >> >In article <lf2ii51paoheac4l1p59mh03if2iiam...@4ax.com>,
> >> >Clhuprichguessw...@aoltmovetheperiodc.om says...
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> >> >> As Gore and other rational analysts have pointed out, the melting
> >> >> Arctic polar
> >> >> ice caps provide proof positive of ongoing global warming.
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> >> >No sane person uses the name of Al Gore and rational in the same
> >> >passage..
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> >> He's too smart for you, eh?
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> > Al Gore smart ?
> > I'd have to ask the professors of the what, 4 universities he flunked
> > out of that question...
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> You can flunk out for many reasons from University
> Sometimes it's because you're not smart
> Sometimes it's because you're smart
> Sometimes it's because you're way too smart
> And then there are all the people who are as dumb as rocks and still manage
> not to flunk out of university
> Al Gore was smart enough to get where he was
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One of the key components to maintain leadership in the Democrat
machine is nepotism.
Al Gore was smart enough to be his daddy's son, and that's his only
real credential.
Cliff
Gore graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in government cum laude on June
12, 1969 from Harvard.
You must have had Palin on you mind. Don't confuse the two.
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Hawaii Pacific University - Attended
North Idaho College - Attended
Matanuska-Susitna College - Attended
University of Idaho
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That's 4, right?
"Palin's early ambition was to be a sportscaster." So she
knows about balls of all sorts.
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Cliff