Green McCain
Andrew Grossman
Posted: 05.13.2008 / 5:36 PM EDT
I just got a mass e-mail from the McCain campaign advertising its new store items: “Eco Friendly Clothes.”
I have done absolutely no research into this, but I’m willing to bet this is the first time a GOP candidate (maybe any major party candidate) has tried to sell “polo shirts made from biodegradable fabric” with the candidate’s name embroidered in green on them. (Ralph Nader doesn’t count.)
The McCain campaign is getting some good mileage out of this greenhouse gas speech. While I haven’t been in Ann Arbor since the end of April, it’s these kinds of issues that will give McCain a shot among some voters there. For a lot of students and young people, George W. Bush is the Republican Party. We’re too young to remember anything else. Raised on the Daily Show and South Park, many people my age see Republicans as the people who don’t believe in global warming and aren’t so sure about that evolution business.
I’m sure this move isn’t an attempt to pull young voters from Obama (that’s probably too tall a task). But if McCain keeps talking like this, especially on the environment and social issues, he could start to change the way people who came of age with Bush in the White House see the GOP.
