Read here. Previously, we wrote about Pelosi's Republican couch toy-boy, and his embracing of global warming hysteria and the left/liberal big government nirvana of 'cap & trade'. And as mentioned previously, he is now getting trashed largely because of his past big government, big ethanol, and big green beliefs.
Fortunately for the American consumer and small businesses, the public has come to the realization that human-caused, catastrophic global warming was fabricated hysteria, and the onerous 'cap & trade' legislation was the elites' hypocritical attempt to prosper by imposing more misery on the middle class. Unfortunately for Newt, the middle class America remembers his and her advocacy for 'cap & trade' and the hysterical embrace of global warming fears.
Sooo, how could Newt Gingrich ever recover from his idiotic embrace of the big green, big government, big ethanol and other fanatic environmental stances? Well, it won't be easy, but if he acted quickly and loudly on just a handful of key points he could become a real player with the small/limited government voters.
Here are 4 statements/ideas he could "embrace" and loudly publicize that would make his presidential bid at least viable, if not unbeatable long-term (if he pounds away on them):
1. If Newt were to say: "Speculative catastrophic global warming propaganda that Obama's EPA and the UN's IPCC publicizes is just that, simply speculation. We need better empirical evidence, not further speculative predictions from government computer models that have proven to be so wrong."
2. If Newt were to say: "Other nation's cap and trade policies have not worked as big government scientists and bureaucrats planned and promised, and in fact, have become platforms for only enriching the wealthy and enhancing organized corruption. The facts on the ground now show I was wrong on 'cap & trade' and it's good this legislation was killed. It pleases me that conservatives and libertarians drove the stake into this beast."
3. If Newt were to say: "The radical green organizations and Obama's EPA are attempting to label CO2 as a pollutant when it is absolutely necessary for life. Without CO2, we'd all be dead. What we should be focusing on instead is a legitimate pollutant called 'black soot' that scientists estimate causes 50% of global warming. This is a pollutant we can reduce without hurting America's middle class, and the result would be saving millions of lives from airborne pollution and also significantly reducing Arctic warming and melting."
4. If Newt were to say: "The United Nations and its IPCC agency has totally destroyed the credibility of climate science. It has also grievously harmed the overall reputation of general science because of the fraudulent Climategate-style of science it condones and encourages. The UN needs to be put on a short leash to prevent any further damage to science. Most importantly, the UN has to be completely eliminated from the climate change discussion among nations as Americans no longer believe any of the hysterical climate pronouncements made by the UN, and they shouldn't."
If Newt were to embrace the above four points, he would start getting some serious traction among those voters who massively turned away from the big government tide in the 2010 elections. As it now stands, if he does not robustly disavow and turn away from his incredibly stupid stances on global warming and 'cap & trade', he will never be a viable Republican candidate.