| You Asked For It: The Ron Paul Post |
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| Written by Dave Loos | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sunday, 10 February 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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When we put together our Super Tuesday Environmental Scorecard last week, we initially included an evaluation of Rep. Ron Paul. At the last moment we decided to list only candidates who to that point had won a primary or caucus, a standard that the Texas congressman failed -- and still fails -- to meet. We stand by our decision, but three things happened since last Monday that caused us to slightly reevaluate Paul's exclusion from the list. First, a bunch of you posted comments and e-mailed us about the absence of your favorite candidate. You especially didn't like our "space limitations" excuse. Second, before our EnviroWonk Super Tuesday poll fell victim to a fatal technical glitch, Ron Paul was in second place, ahead of Hillary Clinton. Finally, it's hard to ignore events that happen in your own backyard. Not only did Paul finish second in last week's Montana Caucus, but he won in EnviroWonk's home base of Missoula County with 45 percent of the vote. We get it. While Ron Paul might not be presidentially important, he is politically relevant. So, for the legions of very dedicated and very vocal Paul supporters, here, in it's entirety, is the post we failed to include last week ... Be careful what you wish for. Ron Paul: Well, we had to look under the "More Issues" tab on Paul's Web site in our search for his environmental policy plan. We finally found it, right between "Home Schooling" and "No Taxes for Tips." As with many issues, Paul talks a lot about property rights as it relates to the environment. That's why he doesn't support federal subsidies for logging in national forests and constantly rails against the feds for facilitating polluters. But Paul remains a climate change skeptic, has voted against raising fuel efficiency standards, doesn't support any type of cap-and-trade system and sees little problem in maintaining the status quo with coal energy. Not exactly the man we want in Washington, though we eagerly await the e-mails we're about to get trying to convince us otherwise: FAIL |
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Yeah, OK, we can be the change that we want to see in the world. But unless powerful people in powerful positions want to be that change as well, nothing's going to change.
So now, finally, there's a place where you can go for news and analysis of politics from an environmental perspective.