If McCain were elected and then died – he is in his 70s now – then Sarah Palin, a creationist who thinks that global warming is either not happening, not man-made, or both would take over.
Watch Republican Carly Fiorina, adviser to McCain, trying to avoid the issue here.
Also, it is quite funny to hear Republicans constantly talking about “reforming Washington”. Funny that, seen as they’ve controlled the White House for the past 8 years, and the vast majority of their top-brass – indeed, Palin notably excepted – have spent decades creaming a living off how the system currently operates.
Of course, that fact doesn’t sit well with the “anti-big government, pro-small town average American” myth the Republicans have built, thus positioning themselves against the “latte-sipping liberal elite” who apparently control Washington, the Media and everything else. The fact that the empirical evidence available to everyone manifestly contradicts this Republican myth is irrelevant. Stories trump science, be it that the Earth is 6000 years old or that America is secretly controlled by liberals rather than being hollowed out by greedy conservatives obsessed with their own invented victim status.
