Aug 21 2008
Bev Perdue Doesn’t Care How Much it Costs You to Get to Work… Unless it Affects Her Poll Numbers
DURHAM - The Republican and Democratic candidates for governor didn’t even make it halfway through their first televised debate Tuesday before they dueled over who wants to drill for oil off North Carolina’s coast.
“It’ll create jobs. In the long term, it’ll lower the price of gas and natural gas,” said Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory, the Republican nominee and an unabashed proponent of building oil platforms off the North Carolina coast.
Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue, the Democratic nominee for governor, said she supports drilling off the coast — of other states, where oil companies already have drilling rights. Perdue said she wouldn’t make a decision about drilling in North Carolina’s ocean waters until hearing from a team of scientists and engineers.
How do I know Perdue is scared of this issue?
Perdue said in June that she was “100 percent opposed” to drilling off North Carolina’s coast. Last week, she pledged to consult experts. Perdue gave her new position on the day a McCrory ad criticized her opposition to drilling.
The drilling issue is scaring the pants off the Dems because they know they don’t have a viable alternative solution. Once you say, “No, don’t drill”, you’ve better be able to follow it up with a damn good idea that makes us energy independent and will lower gas prices. Since the best the Dems can do is to tell us all to cross our fingers, think happy thoughts, and blame it all on George Bush, they’re dropping in the polls.
Perdue’s smart enough to see that if she doesn’t find some viable solution to N.C.’s energy worries, she’s gonna find out what the crappy side of Election Day feels like.
