Eugene Robinson: The GOP is fed up with its choices

[babylonsister]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gop-is-fed-up-with-its-choices/2011/08/22/gIQAvx1NXJ_story.html?hpid=z2


The GOP is fed up with its choices


By Eugene Robinson

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Soon Perry moved on to the science of climate change, which “Fed Up!” dismisses as a “contrived phony mess.” Perry told an audience in New Hampshire that “a substantial number of scientists” have acted in bad faith, manipulating data “so that they will have dollars rolling in to their projects.” Perry added that “we’re seeing almost weekly, or even daily, scientists who are coming forward and questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change.”

None of that is true. There is overwhelming consensus among climate scientists that human activity — especially the burning of fossil fuels — is contributing to climate change. Multiple investigations have found no evidence of fraud or manipulation of data. Unless Perry is ready to publish fundamental new insights into physical and chemical processes at the molecular level, his swaggering stance against climate science is all hat and no cattle.

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“I think when you find yourself at an extreme end of the Republican Party,” Huntsman said of Perry, “you make yourself unelectable.”

He’s correct. But maybe we shouldn’t take his word for it, or Ron Paul’s word — after all, they’re Perry’s opponents. Maybe we also shouldn’t take the word of Karl Rove, who called Perry’s remarks “unpresidential,” since Texas apparently isn’t big enough for the George W. Bush camp and the Rick Perry camp to coexist without feuding.

Suffice it to note that two weeks ago, GOP luminaries were scrambling to find new candidates. And now, after Perry’s debut? Still scrambling, I’m afraid.

[OHdem10]

1. And according to Fox News at 6pm, the consensus there seems

to be PALIN IS THROWING HER HAT IN THE RING IN SEPT.

I was surprised to hear this.

[jimlup]

2. I don't see how she's electable either...

I'm really expecting her to become history at any moment. I'm surprised she's lasted this long. She's Michelle Bachmann if Bachmann were a quitter.

[struggle4progress]

4. "Vote Palin 2012! I'd like to be President for two years!"

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. She may as well -

the whole bunch so far is a who's - who of loonies.

Never have I seen such a bunch of misfits in one arena.

[jenmito]

5. Then she shouldn't be still working at Faux. n/t

[Cosmocat]

9. She has to run ...

to stay "relevant."

She can only continue to hijack events like she has for so long.

She is staying out as long as possible to maintain her safety bubble, but she has to run to stay relevant.

If she were to set the whole thing out, she would be back benched moving forward.

She can come in and be the diva, and then play the victim to the evil liberal press going out.

What she would do is, along with Perry, kill Bachman.

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[ProgressoDem]

7. Why can't they say...

"His swaggering stance against climate science is mentally deranged." ?? Tell it like it is.

[lunatica]

8. Unfortunately the all hat, no cattle are winning the debate

[Tarheel_Dem]

10. K&R (nt)