BOB KING
Politico
Aug 16, 2011
Texas Gov. Rick Perry may have forgotten a thing or two about the Al Gore presidential campaign he helped lead in 1988.
In an interview with an Iowa radio station on Monday, the Republican presidential contender explained his role as the Gore campaign’s Texas chairman by saying that “this was Al Gore before he invented the Internet and got to be Mr. Global Warming.”
But in fact, global warming was already a significant theme for Gore in 1987 and 1988 — long before his activism led to several books, a Nobel Prize and a part in an Academy Award-winning film. It was also well before the right gave him the “Mr. Ozone” nickname and talk radio heaped endless mockery on the future vice president.
Gore, then a young Tennessee senator trying to break out in a crowded Democratic field, mentioned the warming planet as one of his priorities for his presidential campaign in April 1987, according to news coverage at the time.
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Ricky Ridiculous goes with the flow. If tomorrow morning 70% of Americans revealed their belief in the easter-bunny, then the Rickster would come-out wearing a bunny suit. The man’s got no integrity.
Glen Reply:
August 16th, 2011 at 7:02 am
Wow perfect presidential material, less backbone that a flag and more attune to the wind.
sauque madique Reply:
August 16th, 2011 at 7:30 am
and when he blows that flag finds its spine lol , just another rino winbag