CPAC = Big Crazy, At Least Where the Environment Is Concerned

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It looks like the darling of this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, in what is an apparent flirtation with the GOP presidential nomination, was Rand Paul, the son of Ron Paul and, like his father, a firebrand libertarian.

            Paul’s message of less and less government has some staying power for this conference. The Kentucky Senator was similarly lauded at last year’s CPAC. As the way things are going for Appalachians, I have little hope that things will change for the better in those states. They can continue to expect toxic spills in their rivers. With a Rand Paul administration, however, that dismal future would be a certainty. For him, the companies that mine coal can pretty much do as they please, and he dismisses mountaintop removal by saying, “I don’t’ think that anyone is going to be missing a hill or two here and there.”

            Looking at some of the other things to come out of CPAC, it certainly seems like a lot of Big Crazy is going on there. Here we have William Peter Pendly, author of Sagebrush Rebel: Reagan's Battle with Environmental Extremists and Why It Matters Today speaking on president Obama’s fictitious “war on fossil fuels.” Later in the video someone in on the panel discussion dismisses concern or action on climate change by saying that there is a “prejudice against the man-made,” due to “human racism.” That, in essence, folks who are concerned about melting glaciers, rising oceans, possible worsening weather events such as drought, floods, and more sever storms, are only concerned because of their prejudice against the human race. Is that Big Crazy or what?