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Schwarzenegger and Palin face off over climate change
Palin calls Schwarzenegger ‘greener than thou’ after Arnie questions her motives
Sarah Palin has hit back at Arnold Schwarzenegger after he questioned her motives for speaking out on climate change.
The former governor of Alaska has taken exception at the current governor of California's remarks in an interview with the Financial Times on Tuesday in which he wondered aloud whether her recent proclamations on climate change were aimed at securing the Republican nomination for the 2012 US presidential election.
The Washington Post last week published a comment article by Palin, in which the failed 2008 vice-presidential candidate questioned whether climate change was manmade and suggested that policies being pursued at the Copenhagen summit would harm the US economy. Schwarzenegger said: "You have to ask: what was she trying to accomplish? Is she really interested in this subject or is she interested in her career and in winning the nomination [for president]?"
Schwarzenegger, who - despite his love of gas-guzzling Humvees - has emerged as one of the Republican party's environmental champions by introducing tough emissions standards in California, had been putting the case for US president Barack Obama to follow his state's lead on a national level. (Schwarzenegger has now converted two of his Humvees to run on biofuel and hydrogen gas.)
On her Facebook page yesterday, Palin hit back at Arnie: "Why is Governor Schwarzenegger pushing for the same sorts of policies in Copenhagen that have helped drive his state into record deficits and unemployment?" she wrote.
"Perhaps he will recall that I live in our nation's only Arctic state and that I was among the first governors to create a sub-cabinet to deal specifically with climate change... What I didn't do was hamstring Alaska's job creators with burdensome regulations so that I could act 'greener than thou' when talking to reporters."
While this spat between two of the more prominent Republicans can be seen as a fight for the future direction of the party following their defeat to the Democrats’ Barack Obama last year, unfortunately the prospect of a no-holds barred fight between the 'governator' and the 'pitbull in lipstick' for the Republican nomination in 2012 is impossible.
Schwarzenegger was born in Austria and the US constitution states that only a US-born citizen can run for the presidency - despite more than 20 attempts to amend the clause over the past 140 years. ·
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Don't worry guys, George Dubya made sure there won't be a Republican president for the next while, and there will never be a woman either. But then Al Gore doesn't help the Democratic climate change crowd with his lies.....he's just in it for the money. And Copenhagen lost all credibility allowing Robert Mugabe of all people to appeal to Liberal Guilt to send him more money to murder more people .
Barracuda smacks down Governater. Sarah Palin is the populist princess & conservative queen. Old fossils like Schwarzenegger & McCain are over the hill & out of touch.
Won't happen Neil, relax. Since the bimbo helped lose it to the democrats, I can't see her managing to get the top job, there must be some in the GOP with brains. She fits in well with the climate change denialists, they're all hard of thinking, right wingnut escapees from reality.
NeilMc - yeh, but first there'll be a fortune to be made printing bibles - not just Bowdlerised but the recently redacted 'pro-capitalist' ones that get rid of those inconvenient truths like "camels & eyes of needles" or "the rich cannot inherit the Kingdom". Old Oral shure show'd dat to be a crok, di'nt he?
So, is it really certain that this brainless fascist bimbo is going to become President in 2012? Forget investing in gold - put your money into nuclear shelters, because this woman is an insane war-criminal-in-waiting.