Warming Speech Proves McCain’s a ‘Closet Cowboy’

Properly motivated, I might go so far as to take time to identify six degrees of separation between John McCain and the rear ends of cows identified by by a British newspaper article 18 months ago as the main source of greenhouse gas pollutants. Not in the mooood to get behind such an effort (multiple puns intended), I’ll offer in its place a round of applause for the Republican presidential candidate’s willingness to run interference on behalf of the bovines he loves so much.

That’s right! The bovines McCain loves so much.

Few people realize McCain is a closet cowboy with a soft spot in his heart for cows and has been one for more than seven decade!

Unlike George W. Bush, however, the Arizona senator was raised a Navy brat in a long tradition of Navy brats and, as a result, never had the opportunity to live the home-home-on-the-range lifestyle he dreamed about so often as a child in the Panama Canal Zone.

Don’t feel bad about not knowing this about McCain. You’re not alone.

In a post yesterday at Say Anything Blog, “Rob” highlighted what he saw as a flaw in the global warming speech McCain had delivered in Portland earlier in the day. In so doing, he proved that he, too, was unaware of McCain’s love affair with the four-legged farm animals that make possible the advertising tagline, “Beef. It’s what’s for dinner!” The pertinent highlight from Rob’s post appears below:

Actually, it’s worth noting that carbon-dioxide is not the worst greenhouse gas. Methane emitted through livestock flatulence and defecation is actually 20 times worse than carbon dioxide. But SUV’s are a more politically convenient target than cows, so I guess McCain will ignore that bit of inconvenient truth.

Rob’s right. In his speech, McCain let cows off the hoof hook by saying this:

“And we know that among all greenhouse gases, the worst by far is the carbon dioxide that results from fossil-fuel combustion.”

And so I return to the purpose of this post and offer congratulations to the Republican Party presidential nominee-in-waiting for his willingness to run interference for his farm animal friends by not implicating them in his suck-up-to-the-environmentalists speech about global warming.

-- Bob McCarty Writes