Comments on: From the Vault: Taking the Environment Back

By: Taking the Environment Back | The Progressive Republican

Taking the Environment Back | The Progressive Republican — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:17:52 +0000

[...] Cross-posted from The Big Stick, [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:00:49 +0000

Travis,

Check your email. Looking forward to the conversation.

Mike

By: Travis Johnson

Travis Johnson — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 19:55:33 +0000

Mike:
We really need to chat. Drop me a line when you can, please.

Phillip:
If you make that t-shirt, I’ll be happy to sell it, pro-bono on my site!

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:29:58 +0000

Sign me up Phillip!

I am truly amazed by the lack of willingness on the Right to more fully embrace conservation. Outdoorsmen are the best supporters of conservation in the country and they are an easily accessible demographic if played correctly.

Obviously I also bemoan the way we have forgotten the way that we have forgotten TR, Nixon, Goldwater and McCain were among the most vocal proponents of conservation in this country.

By: Philip H.

Philip H. — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:03:41 +0000

Mike,
Great post. As part of my job, I periodically give talk son various federal environmental laws, and it has always floored me that many Republicans “forget” that the very laws they now seek to villify – the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act – were signed by President Nixon. He wasn’t exactly a bleeding heart liberal. He did, however, recognize that 1) American companies couldn’t be trusted to protect the environment voluntarily, and 2) the environment had many national benefits, including economic benefits. So he signed the legislation, largely to protect those economic benefits.

One of these days I’ll get around to getting t-shirts made about this – something like “Nixon – he put the conserve in Conservative.” Want one?