I’ve been saying for a long time if Republicans will step up and start offering solutions to climate change and discussing them in terms that reflect our Party’s principles, then we could take a key election issue away from Democrats. Or at least wrestle them to a jump-ball on the issue. This is what George W. Bush did on education policy in 2000 and it’s what pollster and TR post-er Whit Ayres has blogged about before, backed up by his opinion research.
So you can imagine how much I enjoyed reading this warning over at Huffington Post from Joe Lockhart to his fellow Democrats. Republicans’ pulling up a seat at the climate change table has gotten the attention of seasoned Democratic strategists like Joe.
“It would be a major defeat if climate went from the Democrats’ best point of distinction to a pivot for resurgent Republicans,” Joe wrote.
Some Republican Senators, including conservative Liddy Dole of North Carolina and reform-minded Norm Coleman of Minnesota, are seizing the opportunity this year to put their mark on climate policy. In the process, they and other party leaders can bring others along and improve our chances at the voting booth this November. Republicans should want to win politically on the issue and be part of making smart policy. I still think savvy politicians can make that kind of bank-shot.
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