If you don’t think gas is having an effect on people think again…Last year at the same time where we vacation, you couldn’t find a parking spot and the place was packed…This year the vacation spot is about 60% full…Big difference…Gas prices are forcing people to cut back on vacations right now…how long until the pinch is stopped…?
Yet the right showed little ire when he aired an ad last month touting his environmentalist bona fides: “John McCain stood up to the president and sounded the alarm on global warming five years ago.”
That’s because the day before that ad went up, McCain offered an energy plan that called, among other things, for a repeal of the federal moratorium on off-shore drilling—a reversal of his previous position on the subject. It’s an idea that big oil companies eager to gain access to new potential reserves have backed for years and that had emerged over the preceding weeks as a cause célèbre for conservative activists and bloggers.
For now, at least, his support for off-shore drilling has papered over the divide on environmental issues between the party and its candidate.
It’s also inspired hope among the “rightroots,” the undersized kid brother of the left’s far more robust political Web presence, that this could be the moment and the issue that catalyze the emergence of online conservatism as a force in its own right.
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