Reply #17: I'm not saying it doesn't mean much electorally [View All]

[IrateCitizen]

What I'm saying is that the LCV endorsement isn't necessarily indicative of a steadfast committment to the environment.

I'm an officer in my local Sierra Club -- and while the Local LCV has never endorsed my local Republican Congresswoman, the National LCV ALWAYS does. I just don't think that the national LCV is that much of a benchmark of steadfast environmentalism.

Perhaps I should also have prefaced my comments with the fact that I very much like the things that Kerry has been touting regarding alternative energy sources. But I also worry about the reminiscing he does in his speeches about a return to the Clinton years. Because, despite all of the rhetoric that Bill Clinton made on the environment, in the end analysis he really didn't do a whole helluva lot to address it as a major issue -- unless you're going to count the purely political flurry of executive orders he signed at the end of his Presidency in full knowledge that the Bush administration would simply recind them.

I just see too much of a common thread in this regard. Especially without any committment to reducing consumption and instead the lorelei song of neverending "economic growth".