In his book, sounding like Al Gore, Gingrich maintains that “global climate change” is one
of several “worldwide challenges.” Unlike Gore, he seems to reject any involvement by “international bureaucrats” in such a scheme.

So-called “green conservatism” also surfaced in former Bush speechwriter David Frum’s book. Incredibly, however, Frum advocates a carbon tax as a winning conservative idea.

This kind of doubletalk helps explain why the Republican Party is in disarray. Rather than advocate the production of more energy of all kinds, they have an incoherent message that looks insincere and hypocritical because they want to appear to be as “green” as the Democrats, [but only makes the Republicans look even more ridiculous.]

It’s good that Gingrich now seems to have jettisoned this approach. “Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less” He should go further and recall copies of his books.

We need an American Vaclav Klaus to lead the way back to freedom.

Klaus is great. He has challenged Al to a debate which of course, Mr. Gore turned down.

I suspect we are only now beginning to see green issues being pushed to the back burner. I have been telling folks for a couple of years now that we were only a gasoline hike or two away from completely abandoning theses global warming shenanigans.

What has bothered me, as a conservative, was this idea that the right is not concerned with keeping the planet clean. I suspect some in our party have picked up the global warming mantle as a way of proving that we did indeed care. A mistake of course. Gingrich has me flummoxed.