John McCain Channels Al Gore
Hugh Hewitt:
The long exchange between McCain and Romney on global warming is a crucial moment in this debate and campaign: McCain-Lieberman is a massive regulatory program which would greatly burden the American economy. It would tax energy in a regressive and lasting way, and as Romney points out, would drive huge numbers of jobs off-shore without measurably reducing greenhouse gas emissions on a global scale. Conservatives: "Cap and trade" would be the greatest expansion of the federal regulatory authority in the past half-century. John McCain's certainty about the causes of global warming and the solutions put him far outside the mainstream of the GOP.