Green Fail on the Campaign Trail | Via Meadia

http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/10/26/green-fail-on-the-campaign-trail/

... The closer we come to the election, the less we hear about green and the more we hear about brown, about oil and gas drilling. Obama wants to win in November, and he's clearly made the (correct) choice that he can't do it if he continues to be the green candidate.

This is a testament to the spectacular failures of the environmental movement to articulate any policies that aren't political suicide for those who support them. When Obama was elected, many Greens felt that their time had come, that one of their own was sitting in the Oval Office. But it only took two years of political defeats and embarrassments to convince the president and many of his party colleagues that the green movement's polices of choice are political non-starters.