POLITICS: Guru Gore
Fund, John H.
POLITICS Guru Gore by John H. Fund GUESS IT WAS INEVITABLE. The global warming hysteria for which Al Gore is the leading rabble-rouser has now taken on all the trappings of a cultish...
...The Soviet Union, he feared, would prevail in the coming struggle because it had the discipline and will power to do so...
...Separately, he has signed up thousands of volunteers to master the talking points of his anti-global warming pitch and present his film to service clubs and audiences all over the country...
...Until the public comes to believe that, the zealots will keep on winning...
...His version of climate change no longer bears much relationship to serious science...
...All that my be true, but there is a minority view that Gore may be holding open the door to presidential ambitions largely to maintain public interest in his documentary and lectures...
...Like a twisted cult, the Gore global warming belief system has people thinking the most extraordinary things...
...But I say you a watermelon— green on the outside, but deep red on the inside...
...At a recent event sponsored by the Creative Coalition, former Gore chief of staff and current Democratic lobbyist Jack Quinn told me the 2008 presidential field is by no means settled...
...The Bush administration and business groups have to offer a more clearheaded and principled alternative to the environmentalist doomsayers...
...It is now a form of quasi-religious dogma, and Gore views all of us as heretics...
...POLITICS Guru Gore by John H. Fund GUESS IT WAS INEVITABLE...
...rock concerts he is sponsoring this summer...
...He points out that Gore’s winning an Oscar for his warmed-over documentary “gave him a big credibility boost, which can be leveraged for other things...
...A survey of more than 1,000 middle school students across the country conducted by BrainPOP, a New York based educational provider, His version of climate change no longer bears much relationship to serious science...
...52 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JUNE 2007 Its chief guru is now Al Gore, although he can’t seem to make up his mind about whether he is using his august status to run for president or for secular saint...
...It is now a form of quasi-religious dogma, and Gore views all of us as heretics...
...Let’s make sure we avoid a future in which Al Gore’s works aren’t required reading on the shelves of all our public schools...
...She pointed out that a global warming critic with his eye on the White House is much more interesting to people than a global warming critic who is only planning another trip to view receding glaciers in Montana...
...John H. Fund,The American Spectator’s Politics columnist, is author of Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy (Encounter Books...
...A few years back, at a European environmental conference I attended, the moderate Austrian Green Party representatives were appalled at the fanaticism of some of their colleagues...
...I don’t know why we fought the Cold War,” he shouted...
...You say you are Green...
...The moral armament of the West, by contrast, had grown flabby and weak...
...The command and control economy you want is socialism with an eco-face...
...Yes, and might I add that the true believers would accompany their triumph with a heavy dose of intolerance and the desire to stifle debate that is characteristic of all central planners...
...The best way to combat environmental hysteria is with the same patient blocking tactics that helped the West win the Cold War...
...Nearly one-third of children reported thinking about global warming a lot...
...I vividly recall one Austrian leaping onto a chair during a debate with the head of the Spanish environmental movement...
...The global warming hysteria for which Al Gore is the leading rabble-rouser has now taken on all the trappings of a cultish religion...
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...His new book indicting the Bush administration’s science policy—presumptuously entitled The Assault on Reason—is about to be published, and the former VP will be hawking it at the environmental found that nearly 60 percent of children said they now feared global warming and environmental disasters more than terrorism, car crashes, and even cancer...
...At the core of this alternative must be insistence that democratic capitalism, with its emphasis on property rights, economic incentives, and individual responsibility, is perfectly consistent with a reasonable protection of environmental values—that, indeed, democratic capitalism represents the best way to make nations rich enough to take better care of the environment...
...Luckily, Chambers was in error...
...Should he decide to run for president, this cadre of true believers will no doubt instantly be transformed into political shock troops that can be deployed to Iowa or New Hampshire...
...The betting among his former staffers is that he will parachute into the race for the Democratic nomination in October should he win the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to alert the world of the impending catastrophe of global warming...
...A source close to the Gore camp tells me that the former vice president was tempted earlier this year to say he wouldn’t run in 2008, but was dissuaded by his wife, Tipper...
...Gore, no stranger to the mass consumption of calories, is said ly argued that the dogma of Marxism resembled JOHN H. FUND to have hit the treadmill and is shedding pounds at a steady clip...
...Gore can still come into the race and have a real shot at the nomination,” Quinn told me...
...Today the environmental movement possesses something of the same grim religious determination to prevail over traditional Western belief systems...
...He certainly is keeping his options open...
...Perhaps it is both...
...And let’s be clear who would be winning if the West surrenders to the Gore climate cultists...
...At the beginning of the Cold War, the anti-Communist magazine editor Whittaker Chambers famousan aggressive religion...
...Instead, each will prominently display a copy of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth...
...As Detroit News columnist Tom Bray has noted, the West was able to rally around shared values and principles and eventually see the Soviet Union collapse from its own internal contradictions...
...He says Barack Obama’s surge in support and campaign cash only demonstrates that the presidential race still has running room for other candidates...
...I F YOU THOUGHT THE PROSPECT of Al Gore as president was frightening in the pre-9/11 world of the 2000 election, imagine what today’s morally supercharged Jolly Green Giant would be like as chief executive...
...Exhibit A: The Gaia Napa Valley Hotel and Spa in my native state of California has decided not to put the traditional Gideon Bible in the nightstand drawers of its rooms...
Vol. 40 • June 2007 • No. 5
