Tim Pawlenty: “Every one of us” running for president has flip-flopped on climate change #p2 #tcot

Tim Pawlenty argued Monday that his past support for cap-and-trade legislation shouldn't hinder his presidential bid because nearly all the other Republican White House hopefuls also took the same position.

Yes, GOP contenders are now vying to see who can bend over backwards furthest to please the pro-pollution, anti-science Tea Party extremists (See "Gingrich's 20 years of global warming flip-flops").  So Pawlenty shrewdly says he should get a pass for flip-flopping because everybody who wants to be President has abandoned science!

Think Progress has more (including audio of TPaw):

As he competes for the Republican nomination for president, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) will have to reconcile why he was for cap-and-trade before he was against it. On her radio show yesterday, host Laura Ingraham asked Pawlenty about this flip-flop, playing an ad Pawlenty made in 2008 supporting cap-and-trade legislation with then-Arizona governor Janet Napolitano. Pawlenty called his past belief in the science of climate change "stupid" and a "clunker," and noted that he is not alone in flip-flopping on global warming among the 2012 GOP field:

PAWLENTY: Well, anybody who's going to run for this office who's been in an executive position, or may run, has got some clunkers in their record. Laura, mine I think are fewer and less severe than most. As to climate change, or more specifically cap-and-trade, I've just come out and admitted it — look, it was a mistake, it was stupid. [...]

Everybody in the race, well at least the big names in the race, embraced climate change or cap-and-trade at one point or another. Every one of us.

rest at http://climateprogress.org/2011/03/29/tim-pawlenty-president-flip-flopped-on-climate-change/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climateprogress%2FlCrX+%28Climate+Progress%29