Political Junkies’ Open Thread
By SusanUnPC on January 15, 2008 at 7:52 PM in Uncategorized
URGENT UPDATES ^^^ & A LATE UPDATE: Be there or be square — “8:30 p.m. Ron Paul holds his ‘Michigan Victory Party‘ at the Plymouth Meeting House Grand Ballroom.” And, Dennis is out of the debate! A Nevada supreme court justice has ruled.
And chat about whatever else you have on your minds …
On tonight’s MSNBC Democratic debate, Mark Halperin reports, the candidates will be tasked with asking another candidate TWO QUESTIONS. What two questions would you ask, and of whom?
Halperin also reveals that exit polls show Romney leading, McCain lagging in today’s Michigan GOP primary. Here’s what the Mittster’s been up to regarding global warming, via ThinkProgress:
To hit McCain, Romney has relied on an anti-environment front group, the American Environmental Coalition (AEC) to do the work for him. Last week, George Landrith, the co-Chairman of the group, likened McCain to Al Gore and compared the senator to a wolf in sheep’s clothing:
When it comes to climate change, John McCain and Al Gore are far too much alike for my comfort. John McCain has been sponsoring legislation for the past several years that would give Al Gore much of the regulatory control and power he sought when he and Bill Clinton tried to get America to sign on to the UN’s Kyoto global warming treaty. […]
When listening to John McCain, it would seem that evangelicals should remember the biblical warning found in St. Matthew 7:15 to “beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.”
ThinkProgress reports:
It turns out that AEC is closely tied to the Romney campaign — something Landrith apparently didn’t think to disclose. A scan through AEC’s member rolls reveals the group’s links to the Romney campaign: …
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