Newt Gingrich out greens Al Gore

[White trash wagon]

Newt Gingrich has guzzled Al Gore’s Kool-Aid. Now he wants us and the Republican 2008 presidential candidates to drink it, too.

The former House Speaker’s latest book, "A Contract with the Earth" co-authored with Palm Beach Zoo CEO Terry Maple, is an appalling paean to environmental naivete and taxpayer-subsidized profiteering.

While the book’s theme — i.e., let’s all just happily pitch in and do what it takes to save the environment — may sound reasonable, at least on a superficial basis, Mr. Gingrich’s notions are often wrong or simply bizarre, and his prescriptions amount to little more than a full embrace of rent-seeking "green" business and left-leaning eco-activist groups, both of which often masquerade as "protectors" of the environment.

The book opens with the melodramatic line, "We are personally diminished by the loss of each and every species or habitat that cannot resist extinction."

But nowhere does Mr. Gingrich indicate that we’ve been diminished by the ongoing malarial genocide in Africa caused by the senseless 1972 ban on the pesticide DDT — which was promoted by the Environmental Defense, a command-and-control activist group laughably lauded by Mr. Gingrich as an "advocate of market-based solutions to environmental problems."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,320000,00.html

Scott

[JP135]

It wouldn't take much to out-green Gore, who is the single most hypocritical human being on the planet.

[White trash wagon]

It wouldn't take much to out-green Gore, who is the single most hypocritical human being on the planet.

True, but I don't think Gingrich has given up private jets, or riding in limos either. :rolleyes:

Scott

[Mustangman_2000]

So what's with all the formerly conservative republicans going "green"? Pretty interesting abrogating your personal convictions just because it's currently en vogue to be "green". Hmm...that leads me to another point.

It makes me smile when I listen to people cry about Al Gore's hypocrisy, but more and more conservative Republicans are going "green" and acknowledging human influenced global warming. Just like President Bush and his Administration recently did.

Hypocrisy comes in a variety of flavors folks.

A former VP becoming a staunch environmental advocate all the while living in a multi-room mansion racking up absurd electricity bills. Or once self-described conservative Republicans going "green", much to the chagrin of their corporate base. They both are forms of hypocrisy. Believing in one thing while advocating something else. That's politics, and that's life.

So a big LOL @ people who single out Al Gore or anyone liberal for that matter for being a hypocrite. I hate to be the the bearer of bad news, but hypocrisy is not limited to the Democratic party.

Practical reality says otherwise.

[mikeb]

I think that there is a lot of money to be made for anyone that can take advantage of the current green movement. With that said, some of the green ideas are good, and lot of them are horrible.

[Slowhand]

I think that there is a lot of money to be made for anyone that can take advantage of the current green movement. With that said, some of the green ideas are good, and lot of them are horrible.

I'd assume that this is where Newt is going with all of this.

[Denny]

So what's with all the formerly conservative republicans going "green"? Pretty interesting abrogating your personal convictions just because it's currently en vogue to be "green". Hmm...that leads me to another point.

It makes me smile when I listen to people cry about Al Gore's hypocrisy, but more and more conservative Republicans are going "green" and acknowledging human influenced global warming. Just like President Bush and his Administration recently did.

Hypocrisy comes in a variety of flavors folks.

A former VP becoming a staunch environmental advocate all the while living in a multi-room mansion racking up absurd electricity bills. Or once self-described conservative Republicans going "green", much to the chagrin of their corporate base. They both are forms of hypocrisy. Believing in one thing while advocating something else. That's politics, and that's life.

So a big LOL @ people who single out Al Gore or anyone liberal for that matter for being a hypocrite. I hate to be the the bearer of bad news, but hypocrisy is not limited to the Democratic party.

Practical reality says otherwise.
No, you're comparing Al Gore's hypocracy to some of the Conservatives who just changed their minds. Big difference, o wearer of the rose lens.

[Denny]

I'd assume that this is where Newt is going with all of this.
That is where BOTH sides will eventually be going! The next big money maker will be the pioneers of "green energy." We saw people make their "big boom" with cars, then with computers, then wireless communication, then the big internet sites... next will be the cheap car that gets eleventy to the gallon and can still get the average guy laid.

[ELVIS]

sorry i thought i saw Al Green in the title.

god bless.

[black01gt]

sorry i thought i saw Al Green in the title.

god bless.
Al Green 2008

[01WhiteCobra]

Once Al donates all his inheritance to green causes I'll take him seriously. Senior was a lawyer for Occidental Petro as well as chairman for Island Creek Coal money. Al has too much carbon money in his bank account to be green.