Evil Republicans?

You've all heard about how evil the Republicans are. They want you to be able to own guns so you can kill people. They want you to drive SUVs so buy a bunch of gas so they can get rich from all of their oil buddies. They want your kids to be uneducated and not have healthcare. Yadda Yadda Yadda.

What you don't hear enough is that it is the liberals who are pretty darn evil themselves. And no one has to spread unsubstantiated propoganda claims to prove it. From liberal organizations such as PETA scaring kids from buying milk to others like Planned Parenthood who are against any form of limitations on the cruelest measures of killing unborn children.

Today my good friend, Gary Z posted this entry to his blog about this site. You can tell how mature they are by the "Evil, Duplicitous, Ugly, [expletive] Republicans" caption on their home page. Looking through the site, you will see that they even go so far as to give you advice on the best ways to vandalize public property or the property of others. Of course, they say, "We don't advocate tagging. It's illegal! OK?" on their website...At the very bottom of the home page...Go ahead, see if you can find it amongst all of the hate on that page. Then read the tagging section and see where they say, "We're cooling out on the idea of tagging". Oh well, crazy people can send mixed messages I guess.

This site apparently really believes that it is the Republicans who are making American consumers buy SUVs and guzzle gas. I know you don't believe this, but just in case you are tempted let me provide you some points to ponder.

1. Today the DrudgeReport has an article about how Democrat Senator Barak Obama spoke against gas-guzzling SUVs and how they were causing global warming at a town hall meeting. From the article,

He says part of the blame for the world's higher temperatures rests on gas guzzling vehicles. Obama says consumers can make the difference by switching to higher mileage hybrids.
Today the Senator said, "It would save more energy, do more for the environment and create better world security than all the drilling we could do in Alaska."

However, the article later says that Senator Obama left the meeting in a GMC Envoy. His press secretary claimed that the Envoy was E85 ethanol ready and Drudge said it appeared that was not the case, but that doesn't really matter. Obama said people should drive hybrids and he was not doing so. In addition, it's great if his Envoy was E85 ready, but I'd be willing to bet that he rarely has actual E85 ethanol in his vehicle. It's very hard to find and he probably travels a lot.

2. Good ole Mr. Green himself. Former Senator and Vice President Al Gore. Very popular for his books and lectures on global warming and how we are ruining our planet with gas guzzling SUVs among other things. He even made a movie recently about this to scare the crap out of all of us. Aside from the fact that most of the points he tries to make are mocked by climatologists, let's look at Mr. Gore's record. From this article

Graciously, Gore tells consumers how to change their lives to curb their carbon-gobbling ways: Switch to compact fluorescent light bulbs, use a clothesline, drive a hybrid, use renewable energy, dramatically cut back on consumption. Better still, responsible global citizens can follow Gore's example, because, as he readily points out in his speeches, he lives a "carbon-neutral lifestyle." But if Al Gore is the world's role model for ecology, the planet is doomed

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Gore has held these apocalyptic views about the environment for some time. So why, then, didn't Gore dump his family's large stock holdings in Occidental (Oxy) Petroleum? As executor of his family's trust, over the years Gore has controlled hundreds of thousands of dollars in Oxy stock. Oxy has been mired in controversy over oil drilling in ecologically sensitive areas.

That's right folks. Mr. Green himself doesn't practice what he preaches either. As a matter of fact, the article states that Gore claims to drive a hybrid car, but, like Senator Obama, I seriously doubt that he is carted around to lectures and high-security events in hybrid cars. I laugh out loud at the thought of high-profile people riding in and being surrounded by a fleet of Toyota Priuses. Never gonna happen. Even if they are in hybrid SUVs, it's still a mixed message because those SUVs aren't near as efficient as a hybrid car.

Do I wish that we could reduce our dependency on oil? Absolutelty. Our dependence on foreign oil is severely limiting our foreign policy. I'd love to see ethanol or some other alternative fuel become our major source of energy.

Do I think gas guzzlers are ruining our planet? Absolutely not. Go buy what you want. Be sure to have a lot of money for gas if you choose that big SUV though.

Do I think Republicans are evil? Sure, some of them may be. But there are just as many (if not more) Liberals\Democrats that are evil too.