Rick Perry Pushes Their Buttons - Article - National Review Online

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/275093/rick-perry-pushes-their-buttons-kevin-d-williamson

Progressives like to cloak their policy preferences in the mantle of science, but they do not in fact give a fig about science, which for them is only a vehicle to be ridden to the precise extent that it is convenient. This is why they will ask what makes Rick Perry qualified to disagree with the scientific establishment, but never ask the equally relevant question of what makes Jon Huntsman qualified to agree with it. So long as they are getting the policies they want, they don't care