One way to judge what a right wing President would do is to look at the ideology that right wing politicians in Congress are already promoting. Republican Don Young, who speaks for Alaska in the House of Representatives, reminds us of the animosity the right wing feels toward public lands:
“I don’t believe the government, unless it’s a Communist government, should own lands,” Don Young says.
Does Don Young really believe this, that only a Communist government would own public lands? Well, gosh, Yellowstone National Park is government owned land. Does that make Yellowstone part of a Communist conspiracy?
To equate Yellowstone with Communism is far outside the American mainstream. Progressives don’t agree with that kind of nonsense. Progressives believe that public lands are an important tool for the preservation of natural resources for future generations.
Help protect Yellowstone National Park from nuts like Congressman Don Young. Help elect a progressive President in 2008.
(Sources: DropDon.com, Alaska Public Radio, February 14, 1996)
Public lands are fine for this conservative, but they better remain that way: *public and able to be accessed.*
Attempting to limit access that has been historically safe (i.e. the East Gate of Yellowstone in the winter) is flirting with communism.
So I can have access to Yellowstone in the winter with my 500,000 gallon bucket of pink paint?
If you say no, you’re a communist.