Radical Right Attacks McCain Over Global Warming: ‘Loony,’ ‘Environmental Extremist,’ ‘Popping Off’

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/22/mccain-loony-warming/

Radical Right Attacks McCain Over Global Warming: ‘Loony,’ ‘Environmental Extremist,’ ‘Popping Off’

Yesterday in California, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said what has now become conventional wisdom: that the Bush administration’s inaction on global warming has had damaging consequences for our environment. “I would assess this administration’s record on global warming as terrible. And I have held hearings when I was chairman of the Commerce Committee for years and got no cooperation from the administration on this issue whatsoever,” McCain said.

For speaking such a casual truth, McCain has come under attack from the small contingent of global warming deniers on the right who refuse to accept science. A few examples of the attacks:

Ankle Biting Pundits: McCain Sides With The Loony Left On Global Warming. … No Senator McCain, the President’s record on global warming is not terrible. Just because he doesn’t want to go along with the Euro’s and the lefties in voluntarily destroying our economy doesn’t make him wrong.

Jon Fleischman: McCain Embraces Environmental Extremism in California Appearance

National Review: He’s in CA doing “non-political” global warming events?? Gee, and they wonder why conservatives don’t trust him.

Tonight, Fox pundit Mort Kondracke said McCain’s comments were an example of him “popping off” and demonstrating he is “not entirely in control of his mouth.” Watch it (at link):

Global warming is not a partisan issue. A recent poll taken among conservatives in South Carolina indicate 56 percent believe global warming is happening. Slowly, a consensus on the issue is building, leaving only the fringe right in its wake.

Just give him a few weeks, you'll think he's John Stossel

lambasted for. But I'm well aware of his weathervane ways.

Mainly because he doesn't have the guts to stand up for his true beliefs.

I'd suggest Johnny Mac kiss Falwell's naked ass in the noonday sun on the front steps of the (whatever) Road Baptist Church on earth day as penance.