Interesting. I received my weekly email from John Kerry asking for money to take over the U.S. Senate and it had a glaring omission: Rick “The Shameless One” Noriega was no longer listed. Instead, Sen. Kerry listed Al Franken of Minnesota, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Mark Begich of Alaska and Jeff Merkley of Oregon as the candidates being promoted.
After reading the latest “policy” position from The Shameless One, I think I understand why. Is this guy nuts? He actually said:
“We must have a bold vision and move toward energy independence. We can’t rely on what Mr. Cornyn says — that somehow we’re going to drill our way out. To say that would lower fuel prices is disingenuous. We can’t even get that oil for seven or eight years.”
Not only did he say that, he said it in West Texas. Yeah, that’ll pick up a few votes. Even worse is this:
Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Rick Noriega has said several times this week that the solution to high gasoline prices is to drill for more oil in Iraq, not in pristine American wilderness or coastal areas.
Why is that worse? Because The Shameless One has based his entire campaign on yanking out troops out of Iraq immediately. Now he wants to take their oil? How are we going to do that without our troops? And is he now saying that he would support a military invasion over oil?
But wait! His campaign is saying he was just joking!
“He was clearly joking,” Noriega spokeswoman Holly Shulman said this morning.
Oh really? Then why did he repeat this proposal 4 times? Does this sound like a joke?
Some joke, eh?“Let’s go drill in Iraq right now, where we have had our sons and our daughters spilling their blood and we are sitting on those oilfields,” he told a caller on the Midland station’s Morning Drive program.
“Why are we going to use our … limited resources that we have control over, within our own nation, vs. what we are sitting on [in] these oil fields over there?”
If you don't believe me. Watch this:
Noriega hasn't completely left John Kerry's world though. He has learned the well ill advised flip-flop move from Mr. Kerrys under-estimated troop educational level play book. This guy changes more on Energy policy every day, then a baby wears diapers.
Check out his two day flop on ANWR.
