The Sierra Club is bashing Rand Paul, the Republican Senate candidate in Kentucky, over the head with his own words. A new video shows him dismissing concerns about mountaintop-removal mining (“I don’t think anybody is going to be missing a hill or two here and there”) and accusing President Barack Obama of cozying up to “petty dictators” at the Copenhagen climate conference and “apologiz[ing] for the industrial revolution.” Watch the video:
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