Republican presidential candidate James Gilmore The Third (call him Jim Gilmore if you really believe that a former Governor of Virginia and current Republican presidential candidate is just one of the guys) likes to portray himself as a ready guy, seeing the threats on the horizon that America will have to face. The odd thing about Mr. Gilmore, though, is that he is very selective about the kinds of threats he is able to perceive.

James Gilmore thinks that liberalism is a threat to America. He also worries about what would happen if Americans didn’t have a lot of guns. He fears the consequences of civil unions for same-sex couples.

But global warming? Mention that threat, and James Gilmore won’t know what you’re talking about. Go ahead and search the Gilmore for President web site. You won’t find the phrases “global warming” or “climate change” there at all. The site doesn’t use the word “environment” even once.

When the League of Conservation Voters tried to find a statement by James Gilmore about the threat of global warming for its Heat is On web site, they had to go way back to 2001, when Gilmore denied human responsibility for global warming, saying, “There is not a solid link between greenhouse gases in that warming or at least human conduct and industrial conduct in that warming.”

It seems that, when it comes to threats that are not palatable to his political base, James Gilmore is dedicated to denial. Talk about gun control or gays, and Gilmore will gladly give dire warnings of coming disaster. Mention environmental security, however, and Gilmore becomes strangely silent.

I guess James Gilmore the Third has discovered that he can’t speak out when he’s got his head buried in the sand.

(Sources: HeatIsOn.org, JimGilmore08.com)