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...Which Al Gore were you going to vote for, the environmentalist or the populist? Which George W. Bush, the tax-cutter or the anti-abortionist? Which Ralph Nader, the government reformer or the economic isolationist? Harry Browne makes it easy. A Libertarian government would hardly seem like government...
...until after the members meet early next year, ripples could be felt immediately in this year's presidential campaign. Al Gore, who adopted global warming as a pet project many years ago, may take the report's dire warnings to the trail, reflecting on his own record as an environmentalist and hammering his opponent's perceived weakness on the issue...
...significant than the differences in their views. Both support open markets in principle, but Bush is the more evangelical free trader: He pushed hard earlier this year for congressional passage of a bill to normalize trade relations with China, while Gore remained reticent to avoid alienating his labor and environmentalist supporters. Yet Bush and his advisers also denounce the administration for pursuing a "strategic partnership" with Beijing and for being too friendly with a corrupt and ruthless Russian government. Gore says he would negotiate with Moscow on changes to the Antiballistic Missile Treaty to allow the U.S. to build...
There is hardly any issue in the current presidential race that seems as clear-cut as the environment. While Vice President Al Gore '69 is as close as it gets to being an environmentalist in government, Texas Gov. George W. Bush, as the Economist put it, "has never suggested he cares." Their respective records back up this image of the two candidates. Gore, author of the 1992 manifesto Earth in the Balance, is an avid supporter of the Kyoto protocol--a 1997 commitment signed by over 100 countries to stem global emissions of greenhouse gases. Alternatively, Bush's home state...
...Gore the environmentalist also got in a few good shots (attacking Texas? grim air quality and somehow getting Bush to assert "we don?t know the whole cause behind" global warming) before he went totally off-track and used a passage from the New Testament to defend his tree-hugger status. Bush came back with his usual line: "This is not a matter for federal jurisdiction...