It looks like a number of Republican aspirants to the Republican nomination for President have stumbled in December. Mike Huckabee is emblematic of the stumblers.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee didn’t have an easy December, either. Writing about the much-debated proposal to “cap and trade” greenhouse gas emissions, Huckabee said, “I never did support and never would support it, period.”
But at an October 2007 meeting of the Global Warming and Energy Solutions Conference in New Hampshire, Huckabee said: “I also support cap and trade of carbon emissions. And I was disappointed that the Senate rejected a carbon-counting system to measure the sources of emissions, because that would have been the first and the most important step toward implementing true cap and trade.”
Addressing the contradiction, Huckabee said it is fine for companies to voluntarily engage in cap and trade. “But I was clear that we could not force U.S. businesses to do what their Chinese counterparts refused to,” he said.
They did give Palin an honorable mention for “doing nothing” in December.
One candidate not mentioned at all is former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson. I must say I like Gary’s domestic policies (see video below). But a geopolitician he is not.
Gary Johnson opposed the war in Iraq as Governor of New Mexico and believes that the United States should withdraw our troops from both Iraq and Afghanistan as soon as effectively possible, believing that neither country poses a current threat to the US.
The United States should not be borrowing money to build roads, bridges, schools and other infrastructure in foreign countries, especially when such help is currently needed at home. Non-military foreign aid around the world is something we can not currently afford.
Well Gary, who exactly do you foresee filling the power vacuum when the Americans leave? And building roads and bridges in other countries? Bribery by America of foreign powers is as traditional as Jefferson paying off the Barbary Pirates to leave American ships alone. And we didn’t have much money then either. Oh. Well. It appears that the reality of office and immersion in the global situation changes a person’s views about the wisest course of action. Better to come in with the right framework to begin with though. But eventually circumstances master opinions. Just ask Winston Churchill.
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else. – Winston Churchill
And now for the video:
I was a Libertarian before it was trendy (I voted Ron Paul for President in ’88) and I left the Libertarian Party for the Republicans (libertarian branch) post 9/11. And I joined the TEA Party as soon as I heard Santelli’s Rant.
Cross Posted at Power and Control
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“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else. – Winston Churchill”
That man had a way with words. And an ability to tell the truth in a way that gets a chuckle. (And that’s some good psyops.)
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
“A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.”
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
I’m sure you all can search the net as well as I can.
I just wish we had someone like him around now. Huckabee ain’t it. Neither are any of the other candidates. (Although Sarah P. comes closest in inducing rage in those that oppose her, she just doesn’t have the humor there most of the time.)