the dumbest thing yet

[topaz]

crouchback alerted me to what he and I think have to be the dumbest thing anyone has said yet in this year's Presidential race.  Mike Huckabee, talking to Katie Couric about climate change:

I think we ought to be out there talking about ways to reduce energy consumption and waste. And we ought to declare that we will be free of energy consumption in this country within a decade, bold as that is. (Sierra Club)

Emphasis mine.

This really puts the left on notice.  We have to come up with a new game plan.  Clearly our wimpy "renewable energy" and "sustainable living" approaches are not going to cut it any more, not now that Huck has laid down the law.  Maybe we can pledge a program of free photosynthesis classes to all public school kids?

I really am more pleased every day at the thought that the Republican party might actually nominate this wingnut for the Presidency.

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[innerdoggie.livejournal.com]

Poor dude is more-or-less scientifically illiterate, although he does say some kinda decent things about health care: like spending more on prevention rather than on expensive treatments for diseases like type II diabetes.

On the other hand, wanting to quarantine HIV+ folks in 1992 is rather illiterate. By then it was well-established that the disease was not spread through casual contact which would warrant a quarantine. (Unlike, say, SARS, or diseases like that.)

Maybe he can learn, since he did change his own life and health, but maybe not enough to be President!