claim: says mitt romney supports cap and trade.
author: rick santorum
evidence_1: jun 3, 2011 ... cap and trade. as governor of massachusetts, romney supported a carbon-trading pact among northeastern states that, like his health care bill, served as a potential model for a national version. romney even said of the plan, "i am convinced it is good for business." of carbon emissions in general, ...
evidence_2: nov 1, 2012 ... president obama and mitt romney have been even more reluctant to utter the words "global warming. ... in october 2011 he said, "we don't know what's causing climate change on this planet. ... mccain reiterated his support for a "cap-and-trade" system to combat climate change at a speech in oregon.
evidence_3: may 13, 2011 ... former minnesota governor tim pawlenty supported cap-and-trade in 2007 but has since urged congress to reject it. he won plaudits from redstate's erick erickson for apologizing for his prior cap-and-trade support in the first republican presidential debate, held last week in south carolina. mitt romney ...
evidence_4: some former romney policy advisors later told the new york times that his political team had been afraid that, with industry being opposed to the cap-and-trade proposal, romney's having included massachusetts in the regional greenhouse gas initiative would have made romney's chance of winning a presidential ...
evidence_5: oct 13, 2011 ... the list is well traveled: this mitt is the same one who supported tarp; the same one who instituted an obama-style individual mandate requiring massachusetts residents to purchase health care; who supported “cap and trade,” assault-weapons bans, and roe v. wade. his puerile attacks on rick perry ...