Huh, now that’s something I don’t see everyday
It wasn’t all that long ago when the idea of a Republican conservationist wasn’t the sort of thing that would cause eyebrows to raise – Tom McCall was many things, but he was most definitely not a Democrat, despite the feverish wishing of the slash-and-burn vandals who control the Oregon Republican Party these days – but it’s a sign of something that the first McCain ‘08 bumper sticker I have ever seen (there are still a ridiculously large number of W bumper stickers floating around even after eight years of slash-and-burn at the national level. I might not have much respect for the conservatives who have taken over the Democratic Party these days, but at least they had the sense to put a political firewall between them and their soul brothers who remain lashed to the mast on the blazing ruin of the GOP ship of state) should be attached to a brand new Prius.
It gives me hope that some Republicans might be backing carefully away from the cargo cult that has taken control of their party and might be thinking that even pretending to be fiscal conservatives (conserving resources is fundamentally a conservative thing to do, because even if you’re a good friend of the ruling junta you’re still going to have to try to live in the desolate ruin left after the pillaging hordes have moved through) is better than going over the cliff with the dimwitted B*sh family and their rapacious friends.
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I’d bet than any conservationist Republican is betting that McCain is so desperate for the brass ring that his new super-conservative persona will prove to be as durable as his previous Maverick™ one was, and that the policies you get will end up being the policies of the last people to attach themselves, limpet-like, to the PPpppleaaaase elect me! express. And if this is true, it’s certainly an opportunity for the dozen or so actually conservative Republicans, because the existing crowd of parasitic consultant have grown so bloated that they need little carts (or repulsor units for the traditional Baron Harkonnen look) to move at all.
The fact that a Republican would actually buy a Prius and then put a political sticker on it shows that the new Republican base has been badly damaged during their attempts to destroy the United States. And that’s a good thing.
Some hawks advocate energy conservation because it would make US foreign policy less dependent on the oilocracies:
http://www.slate.com/id/2112608/
http://www.iags.org/about.htm
http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2005/06/07/little-woolsey/
Well, bellicose isolationism, as appalling as it might be, is still better than the new tradition of “the LAWWWWWWWD will provide!” that the Evil Party uses as their rationale for ignoring the environment these days.
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Too bad McCain is part of the rapacious hordes but who somehow manages to paint himself as an outsider and a force for change, when all he is is 4 or 8 more years of exactly the same shit.