Crist's stance on warming novel in GOP

[Herman Munster]

http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070422/SUNFRONT/704220336

With "Stop global warming'' bracelets dangling from his wrist, Gov. Charlie Crist took his seat at the O'Connell Center between the two women who would soon embrace him in a hug before a row of television cameras: rock star and environmental activist Sheryl Crow and Laurie David, producer of the Al Gore documentary on global warming.

This seat might rank near the bottom on the comfort scale for a Republican governor of Florida - even one who is a fan of Crow's hit song "Soak Up the Sun.''

Crist, however, feels at home.

"It's not a Democrat or Republican issue,'' he told a news conference at the University of Florida for the Stop Global Warming college tour at the Phillips Center. "It's a right or wrong issue and this is what's right to do.''

Crist is the first governor in the South and one of a handful of Republicans nationally to so publicly get behind the issue of global warming - an issue the Republican presidential administration denied existed until recently, and which Crist's predecessor, Jeb Bush, paid little attention to.

[pnwmom]

1. Something tells me this guy is aiming for national office.

That, and his recent decision to ease the way for ex-felons to vote again -- a huge switch from the previous Republican administration.

[depakid]

2. My thoughts exactly

What do you bet that he makes more such moves in preparation for 2012?

[hang a left]

3. Pardon me for being suspicious....

So Christ is all about Global Warming???

Just so freakin curious.

Now all of a sudden you have so many tools jumping on the bandwagon.

In my heart of hearts, they are either pandering, OR their is something else.

My fear is about the something else.

I just see this as an opening for tax monies to be used in the name of "green energy", "conservation", "save the planet", and other catchy slogans.

Is this a way to funnel the MIC money into coffers that will grease the "emerging markets".

We really have to step back and take a good, long look.

I have thought about this before. We will probably NEVER rid our government of corporate influence. So...

Ask yourselves, and I mean honestly: Who is expected to gain from "earth-saving" legislation??

Follow the money, so to speak.

Maybe ethanol is the answer. And maybe all the third world countries will grow GM corn.

So just come with me for a minute, sans prejudice. What if....

The new government sucking enterprise WAS "green energy" (cough, cough). And this concept was presented to us via a "Green Candidate".

Well, hell ya, we would all be up on our keyboards going crazy.

Knowing what I know, and being the pessimest that I am...

I see it as an advertized prioity.], that the American people will get behind. But, if there are not real viable options for us; Our tax dollars will be used to grease the skids of a NEW kind of government raider.

Call me a freak. I don't care. All I know is this: There has been an increasing amount of coverage in the MSM (daylies, and broadcast)regarding the catasrophic events that our earth faces. Everyone is paying attention. I ain't talking about the wingnuts, they are a non-issue.

Would it not make sense to build your platform around rectifyting this sensational subject??

[gaspee]

4. I'm the suspicious type

That said, his state is one of the ones that is going to be majorly affected by rising sea levels. The Environment used to be a bipartisan issue. Maybe he's got his head out of his ass on this one.

Though I doubt it.

[BushOut06]

5. Do NOT be fooled by Charlie "Chain-Gang" Crist

He is a career politician, working his way up the ladder. That's all he's doing. He worked his way through about a dozen state positions before finally landing his current gig as governor. He's no fool, he knows that people want "moderate" politicians, so that's exactly what he's trying to make himself look like. His eventual goal most likely is POTUS, and then his true colors will come out. If you want to know what his true colors are like, all you have to do is look back at his career before he suddenly became a "moderate".