On 21/08/2011 05:00, Mr Posting Robot v2.1 wrote:
BONZO@27-32-240-172 [numerous nyms] wrote:
[Aussie coal lobby spin]

Huntsman pounds Perry on climate change and Fed

Related articles:
* Huntsman pounds Perry on climate change and Fed: AP
* The Morning Plum: Wash Post
* Huntsman: 'Call me crazy' on evolution: UPI

Aug 20 2011

Washington (AP) -- Presidential candidate Jon Huntsman is pounding away at
rival Rick Perry's skepticism of manmade global warming and criticism of the
nation's central banker, saying those stands hurt the GOP and make the Texas
governor come off as a not-so-serious national figure.

Huntsman, a former Utah governor who was President Barack Obama's first
ambassador to China, has trailed in early polls nationally and in early voting
states, leading his campaign to pledge more aggressive attacks on the top candid
ates.

Perry, who entered the race last weekend and has surged to a prominent role,
has provided Huntsman with an ample opening to take shots.

Perry said in New Hampshire this past wk that he didn't believe in manmade
global warming, branding it an unproven scientific theory. He also defended
the teaching of creationism in schools because evolution "has some gaps to it."

"When we take a position that isn't willing to embrace evolution, when we take
a position that basically runs counter to what 98 of 100 climate scientists
have said, what the National Academy of Science has said about what is causing
climate change and man's contribution to it, I think we find ourselves on the
wrong side of science, and, therefore, in a losing position," Huntsman told
ABC's "This Week."

Huntsman said he couldn't remember a time when "we actually were willing to
shun science and become a party that was antithetical to science. I'm not sure
that's good for our future and it's not a winning formula," according to
interview excerpts released Sat ABC. The full interview is set to air Sun.

Good for him. It is about time that the lying dittoheads in American
politics were outed as a bunch of self serving oil and coal men.

It is about time that the drooling rightwhingers and the religious right
were shown the door. No more deniers of science would be helpful.

Campaigning in Rock Hill, S.C., on Sat, Perry didn't back down, saying he
believes the Earth's temperature "has been moving up and down for millenniums
now and there are enough scientists out there that are skeptical about the
reasons for it."

Many conservatives question the evidence that shows climate change is
happening and the government solutions to stem it.

Perry also took on the Federal Reserve and its chairman, Ben Bernanke, when he
said the central bank's leader would be committing a "treasonous" act if he
decided to "print more money to boost the economy." Such action, the governor
told a crowd in Iowa, would amount to a political maneuver aimed at helping
President Barack Obama win re-election.

Huntsman said he wasn't sure that "the average voter out there is going to
hear that treasonous remark and say that sounds like a presidential candidate,
that sounds like someone who is serious on the issues."

Perry said Sat voters are worried about monetary policy. "I'm about
representing the American people out here and the American people are really
concerned and scared."

Trying to put Perry's broadside against Bernanke in context, Huntsman said
"people are crying out for us to get back to some level of sensibility and
this just kind of perpetuates the name-calling and the finger-pointing and the
blame game where we want solutions."

"These sideshows," Huntsman said, take "us that much farther off the ball"
from the focus of fixing the economy and creating jobs.

WOW! In Huntsman the GOP actually appear to have *ONE* candidate that is
not completely rabid or demented and doesn't howl at the moon!

Regards,
Martin Brown