Mitt Romney on Climate Change

I don’t admire Mitt Romney as a person, and I certainly don’t envy the political position in which he finds himself. At the very best, he faces the same dilemma he did four years ago: figuring how to appear far enough to the right to get the GOP nomination, but sufficiently moderate so as not to look like a nut-job to the general electorate only a few months later.  That’s an unwinnable war on a good day.

I bring this up because of this article where Romney says that, despite his status as a Republican, he believes in climate change, which made me laugh out loud when I read it this afternoon. I suppose that’s better than trying to convince voters that the disruption of Earth’s climate is an anti-capitalist hoax–in a world that generally regards it as one of its greatest threats.  But it’s impossible to know how this positions him in the constellation of Republican hopefuls.

In any case, it’s hard to imagine any set of events that would land Romney in the White House in 2016. Even if it weren’t for the myriad social issues that favor a more liberal mind-set in today’s age, how would anyone like to run against the party during whose tenure this economic rebound has occurred?

Again, that’s an unenviable position if there ever were one.