The document provides summaries of four Republican candidates for the 2012 election - Herman Cain, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and current President Barack Obama - and their positions on green issues and environmental policy. All candidates express little genuine commitment to addressing climate change and environmental protection, with Cain promoting an economic plan at the expense of the environment, Romney distancing himself from the issue, Perry proposing to power executions with coal, and Obama prioritizing other issues over environmental concerns despite past support for green policies.
2. Green Movement
2012 Candidate Review
Name: Herman 15 minutes of fame Cain
Credentials: Hand-tossed pizza expert
Deep-dish pizza expert (certification pending)
Always willing to give you a ride home
Green Vision Statement: My green vision is the 9-9-9 plan:
9 new government subsidies,
9 new ways to jam the taxpayer, and
9 new Congressional investigations
9-9-9!!! Its so simple.
Not printed on recycled material; do not want to offend Republican base
3. Green Movement
2012 Candidate Review
Name: Mitt Ive got the other Green Romney
Credentials: Governor of Massachusetts (lots of greenies there)
CEO of Bain Capital
Green isnt my strong suit, but at least were not
talking Religion!
Green Vision Statement: My hope is to survive this issue and to move
on to things that I actually care about.
Not printed on recycled material; do not want to offend Republican base
4. Green Movement
2012 Candidate Review
Name: Rick And you thought W was dumb Perry
Credentials: Governor of the Republic of Texas
Not a Mormon
3rd Alternate on Abilene Junior High Debate Team
Green Vision Statement: If elected, I pledge to transition all
executions to clean coal power by 2020.
Not printed on recycled material; do not want to offend Republican base
5. Green Movement
2012 Candidate Review
Name: Barack Dont call me Hussein Obama
Credentials: President of the United States
Used to care about green issues
Have I told you my Osama Bin Laden story?
Green Vision Statement: What do tree-huggers and Occupy Wall
Street have in common?
Theyre going to vote for me no matter what,
so I may as well score some more points
elsewhere. DRILL BABY DRILL!
Printed on paper confiscated from wealthy people
6. Green Movement
2012 Candidate Review
Did you ever dream that we would miss these guys?
Sure, I won the Nobel Prize for regurgitating
other peoples ideas. But seriously, Barack won
it for what you thought he might do someday.
I sure hope youve learned your lesson!
"Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it
hemispheric in nature because it is a product
that we can find in our neighborhoods."
-- Actual quote from December 20th, 2000