Jim Inhofe backs Rick Perry over 'mushy' Mitt Romney

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/61996.html

Jim Inhofe backs Rick Perry over 'mushy' Mitt Romney

By ROBIN BRAVENDER | 8/24/11 3:09 PM EDT

Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s White House bid has won the backing of the Senate’s leading climate change skeptic.

Among other reasons, Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe told a home-state Chamber of Commerce audience Wednesday that he can’t get behind the GOP’s presumed presidential front-runner. Inhofe said he “likes Mitt Romney, but he's a little mushy on environmental issues.”

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For example, Inhofe said of Newt Gingrich, “I always have this vision of him sitting on the couch holding hands with Nancy Pelosi.”

Gingrich has https://www.politicopro.com/story/energy/?id=4851">taken heat from the right for appearing with Pelosi on a love seat in a 3-year-old commercial calling for a compromise on global warming legislation. The ad was cut for Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection.

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[eleny]

1. Because stupid has it all over mushy

[provis99]

2. I really didn't want to read Gingrich, Pelosi, and love seat in a sentence...

[demosincebirth]

3. He's half right.