Any doubt about where Mitt Romney stands on climate change was infamously laid to rest at his GOP convention speech in August, when he drew guffaws from the audience with a gibe at President Obama for wanting to “slow the rise of the oceans” and to “heal the planet,” while, in contrast, Romney would “help you and your family.”
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, that rhetoric makes less sense than ever, as families reel from devastation wrought by “the rise of the oceans.” So on Tuesday in Minneapolis, as East Coasters were just assessing the damage, Bill Clinton found an opportunity to call Romney’s bluff: “In my part of America we would have liked it if someone could have done that yesterday.”
