Remember that moment in last month's Iowa debate when the Republican candidates were asked to raise a hand if they believe that climate change is real and caused by humans? Mike Huckabee was one of the four who did -- in fact, the Arkansan has aligned with the nascent evangelical push to protect the planet by playing up his support for limits on carbon emissions.
So it's a legitimate question to ask why Don Young of Alaska, the oil-industry ally who deemed carbon emissions limits "Luddite madness", is the congressional chairman of Huckabee's presidential campaign. Incidentally, Young's most recent denial of the scientific evidence that humans are causing climate change came on the same day Huckabee won Iowa.
Endorsements on Capitol Hill may appear a trivial barometer of a candidate's allegiances, but behind the curtain in the Capitol, a senior supporter such as Young stands to win big should his early bet for Huckabee prove correct ... and he'd no doubt be on the front lines looking to kill any carbon caps proposed by President Huckabee.
(The federal investigation into Young being another matter entirely, of course.)
