What Newt said.

Yeah, he looked like kind of a weinie in the debate with Kerry, but I just got his Winning the Future email last night and I thought it read pretty well.

All right, where'd he hide it?!

Ah, here!

Values of Green Conservatism

An American Solutions approach will develop a “green conservatism.”

1. Green conservatism favors clean air and clean water.
2. Green conservatism favors maximum biodiversity as a positive good.
3. Green conservatism favors minimizing carbon loading in the atmosphere as a positive public value.
4. Green conservatism is pro-science, pro-technology, and pro-innovation.
5. Green conservatism believes that green prosperity and green development are integral to the successful future of the human race.
6. Green conservatism believes that economic growth and environmental health are compatible in both the developed and developing world.
7. Green conservatism believes that we can realize more positive environmental outcomes faster by shifting tax code incentives and shifting market behavior than is possible from litigation and regulation.

Last night the local PBS affiliate had a four hour Global Warmathon. They started out with a show whose trailer implied that solar energy is a big disappointment. I had to miss that one, hopefully they'll replay it tonight on the spare taxpayer-supported station. Then there was the show that "proved" Global Warming Theory, though I noticed an awful lot of "mays" and "maybes" being bandied about. I suppose that's how you get a "consensus." The third show was all about what dumb, evil bastards anybody is who denies global warming.

At least those are my impressions. I was trying to read Rousseau and chase kids around while all these were on. I thought Newt sounded like a breath of anti-statist reason after all that.