Posted by
travis christensen on Monday, May 19, 2008 10:16:41 PM
Here's a couple of things to think about...
1. There seems to be a slowdown recently in global-warming related propaganda. It could be because the media is focused upon the Obama/Clinton/McCain fight; it could also be because more scientists are coming forward and questioning climate-change orthodoxy; I think not. I think the real reason that suddenly, after years of hysteria, that global-warming is becoming a back-burner issue is because Senator McCain has jumped on the bandwagon. If the Republican candidate is as much in favor of taxing and regulating industry as is the Democratic candidate then controlling climate change is no longer a campaign issue that favors the Democrats. If it is not an issue that can lead to a Democrat victory, then it is not an issue that merits front-page coverage.
If my theory is correct is raises other questions. The most obvious is that if global-warming is so important and so real, and dealing with it is such an urgent issue to save humanity from extinction, why does it fade away when the issue is no longer politicaly useful? It is taken as an axiom that the media is liberally biased, I would expect that the real environmental alarmists would keep pushing the global-warming issue without regard of how it would benefit the Democrats, recent news coverage suggests that the media is not just liberal, but that they are working more closely with the Democrats than I had expected and that they are actively supporting Obama for president.
One must also ask if Senator McCain really has jumped on the global-warming bandwagon, or if he has embraced it as rhetoric in order to remove it as a campaign issue. You must wonder the same in regards to immigration issues. We'll see what happens if McCain wins, but I don't know if you can win as a Republican by embracing Democrat issues.
2. Accusing your opponent of running a negative campaign is a type of negative campaigning. This being said, Senator McCain has run the most negative Presidential campaign of any candidate in either party. He is a passive aggressive Republican.
3. Romney, Huckabee, Paul, Thompson, Giuliani, they all ran against McCain and got clobbered. They tore into each other and Romney, the only one with the koach to go right at McCain got smeared for being negative. They played by the rules, they lost, now they are wishing that things had gone different and hoping to get the VP call.
Obama called McCain out. A Democrat is the only candidate who has pointed out that McCain will preach against "negative campaigning" and an hour later will say whatever he pleases.