Politico takes up the standard climate hoax lines to try and get the GOP. For the record, Huntsman never got above 0.5%. Not exactly a big showing, but seriously, are all the lefturds brain dead communists? If they weren’t and knew the first thing about reading, they would figure out the climate hoaxers wrote a bunch of emails, that exposed the whole scam. It’s just that someone decided to publish the emails and expose the whole damn lie.
But the Politico continues with the scam baiting:
So much for embracing climate science as a Republican presidential candidate in 2012.
The demise of Jon Huntsman’s White House hopes leaves GOP climate moderates without a champion in the remaining Republican field, especially given front-runner Mitt Romney’s efforts to convince global warming skeptics that he’s one of them. And that raises questions about how the party’s eventual nominee will fare with science-minded voters against President Barack Obama in November.
“There are a lot of reasons Huntsman was not successful, but his story does raise important questions about primary voters and the Republican Party going forward,” said Adam Mendelsohn, a political adviser to former California Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. “The issue never really saw the light of day in the Republican primary. The question now is whether that becomes a liability with swing voters in the general.”
Huntsman himself has tried to warn that Republicans spurn climate science at their peril.
“The minute that the Republican Party becomes the anti-science party, we have a huge problem,” the former Utah governor said during an August appearance on ABC News’s “This Week,” in which he lumped evolution and climate science together. “We lose a whole lot of people who would otherwise allow us to win the election in 2012.”
The same month, he snarked it up on Twitter after Texas Gov. Rick Perry, then surging in the polls, called climate change a “theory that’s out there.”
“To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy,” Huntsman tweeted.
But in the end, it was the wrong message in the wrong campaign. While Huntsman’s statements endeared him to moderate Republicans desperate to back a winner all the way to the White House, they were nowhere near enough to overcome Romney’s head start, let alone conservatives’ doubts about the climate issue and Huntsman’s own service as Obama’s ambassador to China.
“Huntsman seemed to want to be a general election candidate in the primary,” said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, the top economic adviser to John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign. “I think this is simply evidence that his energy and environment stance could not compensate for weakness on the core issues of jobs and government spending.”
It’s a lie, Politico, it giant MFing lie,
