The Rhetoric Huckster

By Adam Bitely

While campaigning for the GOP nomination for President in 2007, Mike Huckabee said that “[w]e have a responsibility to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, to conserve energy, to find alternative forms of energy that are renewable and sustainable and environmentally friendly.” Huckabee continued by stating support to Bloomberg for an “economy-wide `cap-and-trade’ system to control greenhouse gases.”

Fast forward to present-day 2010, and Huckabee is singing a different tune.

In a statement released from Huckabee, he claims:

“In a recent internet post, a contributor makes the claim that I supported cap-and-trade in late 2007 while running for President.

“To put it simply, that’s just not true.

“If companies chose to participate voluntarily as part of their corporate policy, then fine. But I was clear that we could not force U.S. businesses to do what their Chinese counterparts refused to – and doing so would have been a serious job killer.”

That’s quite a reversal for someone to make. Not only has Huckabee flipped his position entirely, he fails to recognize that his previous statements were supportive of the exact position that he now claims he never held.

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