Now I see how, shocking, the North Eastern RINO's RINO, after months of telling the Republican base he's not a worshiper of the church of climate change may grow in office. From Politico.com.
Will Mitt Romney flip-flop on climate change if he’s elected president?
Some big donors are betting on it.
Romney and his super PAC have taken millions from funders with strong green streaks — despite the fact that the former Massachusetts governor has run to the right in the primary, proclaiming doubts about global-warming science and trashing President Barack Obama’s greenhouse gas emissions policies.
Julian Robertson, founder of the Tiger Management hedge fund, helped put cap-and-trade legislation on the map with $60 million in contributions over the past decade to the Environmental Defense Fund.
Now, Robertson has given $1.25 million to Romney’s Restore our Future super PAC, plus the maximum $2,500 to the Romney campaign.
Other green-minded financial backers may not be giving as much as Robertson, but they still share the view that climate-change science and a solid environmental agenda wouldn’t be a lost cause if Romney won the White House.
“My feeling is that on these issues that people learn,” said former Gov. Thomas Kean (R-N.J.), who maxed out last fall to Romney with a $2,500 check. “And my hope is, as time goes on, he will understand that not everybody agrees on how you deal with these issues, but I hope he will agree with 99 percent of the scientists who believe this is an issue that we have to deal with.”
As president, Kean said he hoped Romney could duplicate his Beacon Hill successes in building coalitions with Democrats on issues such as energy and the environment. In addition, Kean noted that Romney wouldn’t face the same gridlocked climate debate of recent years, in large part because of the boom in domestic natural gas production that’s helped lower the nation’s greenhouse gas emission levels. “The whole game has changed,” Kean said.
...Among the other green Romney donors is Texas businessman and philanthropist Trammell S. Crow, founder of Earth Day Dallas and winner of the Republicans for Environmental Protection’s Green Elephant Award in 2007...
...“I am voting for Mitt Romney and I believe in global warming,” Crow said in a statement to POLITICO...
Romney will learn about global warming. He will probably learn about nationalized health care, Wall Street bailouts, etc. Hey, it's like Obama, just with better taste in clothes.
Why do I think come November 6th I will be drinking a lot...thanks Republican Party. You went into this campaign season coming off a historical victory in 2010 and promptly stabbed the people who put you in office in the back. The Republican Establishment (the one that George Will, etc swears doesn't exist) have offered up another gutless RINO and said "This or the really open socialist..." Obama will drive this country off the cliff in overdrive...Romney will do it in second gear.
God, how did it ever get this bad.
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