How stupid are conservatives? This stupid.

[kpete]

Expanding the search for oil is necessary to pay for the damage caused by climate change, the Governor of Alaska has told the BBC. The state is suffering significant climate impacts from rising seas forcing the relocation of remote villages. Governor Bill Walker says that coping with these changes is hugely expensive. He wants to "urgently" drill in the protected lands of the Arctic National Wilderness Refuge to fund them. Alaska has been severely hit by the dramatic drop in the price of oil over the past two years.


http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34501867

[AuntPatsy]

1. N/T

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

2. It makes sense if you actually don't believe human activity is the motivation behind CC. nt

[Hortensis]

3. Best guess this is noise for the electorate?

Alaskans are, of course, relatively well off because of oil, and he needs to sound as if he is trying to keep it pumping.

[Scuba]

4. Wow, has Alaska ever had a Governor this stupid before?

[Martin Eden]

5. Now, that's a loaded question! n/t

[Fuddnik]

6. I remember one in 2008 who kept chanting "Drill Baby, Drill"!!!!!

[erronis]

7. They know how to choose 'em! nt

[Jack Rabbit]

8. Good point

Maybe it's something in the water up there, but if that were shown to be the case Walker (or that other person of whom we're thinking) would propose allowing the oil companies to pollute with impunity so that Alaskans would have to stop drinking it.

[kairos12]

9. Yep, And I don't have to see her from my porch.

[LynneSin]

10. He's not as stupid as Caribou Barbie...

one of the first things this guy did when he got into office was take the money to expand Obamacare.

So he has some smarts. But then again not too much of them but at least better than the Failin' Palin From Wasilla.

[Blue_In_AK]

17. He is much, much, much better than the previous three,

although wrong on this issue. He has been doing many positive things since coming into office last year, including expanding Medicaid by executive order over the loud objections of our republican legislature.

[Mendocino]

11. The Texas Trio

Just how stupid, Texas has Gohmert, Perry and GW. Ohio has Boehner, Kasich, Dewine. Alaska has Palin and did have Young. Wisconsin; Walker and Ryan. But South Carolina may have won; Wilson, DeMint, Gowdy, Kincannon, Graham, Scott, Haley and several lesser but equally dense contenders. Perhaps we should have a Red State "Moran" contest.

[Bucky]

16. As a Texan, I'm deeply offended by your post

We have whole buckloads of more conservative nitwits than measely old South Carolina. How dare you suggest that our stupidity only extends to Louie Gohmert, Dubya, and Governor Goodhair! Hell, you've barely scratched the surface. We got the dumbest Goddamned Lieutenant Governor in the country, Dan Patrick. We gave America Rep. Lamar Smith, a science denying chairman of the House Committee on Committee On Science, Space & Technology. We have Rep Blake Farenthold, who stood out for stupid at the recent Planned Parenthood hearings by suggesting that women could go to children's health clinics to get their pap smears instead of PP. And we got absolute world class stupid with our beloved junior Senator Ted Cruz who's so rightwing even the Republican Senate Caucus can't stomach his antics.

No one outstupids Texas conservatives, mister... NOBODY!!

[Mendocino]

21. So Sorry

We're not worthy ;0.

EVERYTHING!!!... is bigger in TX.

The amount of conservative stupid in this country is a fast fast fast race to the bottom. As if pure dumbass is a positive, ignorance a virtue and lack of a single brain cell a stepping stone to a long and and fruitful career in public service.

But in defense of Ohio, we did have a guy, Rich Iott, who thought as dressing up as Nazi on weekends was a wise political move.

[tex-wyo-dem]

23. + a million!

Texas is in its own special category of rethug stupidity...

[packman]

12. Isn't that like the Trump Solution to Bankruptcy?

Remember reading how he would have the institutions and banks who gave him money give him MORE because their initial investments were in jeopardy . The only solution was to pour more money into the money pit.

[slumcamper]

13. This defines "DOUBLING DOWN ON STUPID." 'Nuf said.

[raven mad]

14. I live here.

This is real.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

15. I wonder how Alaska keeps ending up with nature-hating, clean air and water-loathing,

oil-grubbing governors?

[Blue_In_AK]

18. Oil runs our state, sad but true,

and we're feeling a pinch right now with the price of oil down. With Walker, I'm sure it's not that he hates nature, clean air or fresh water but that he's trying to sustain an economy here that's gotten used to oil at high prices.

[Blue_In_AK]

19. If they have to drill anywhere,

the coastal plain is much preferable to offshore, IMO. Of course I would prefer something completely unrelated to oil as our economic driver, but for the moment it is what it is.

[hifiguy]

20. That is stupidity beyond the quantifying abilities

of the smartest mathematicians on the planet, perhaps the universe itself.

Jebus, that is in trans-Palin/Gohmert/Cruz territory.

[Aerows]

22. "The solution to flooding

is to flood the area until everything is dead, nobody lives there anymore, and you can determine how much flooding was too much."

Except it's the world they are talking about.