WAR ON COAL: New ad targets Lamar Alexander. Not sure what he’s thinking here.

Maybe there’s something I’m missing here, but it seems to me that Alexander should be emulating Bob Corker.

UPDATE: Reader Trey Monroe writes:

Hey Glenn, you had written that you did not understand Lamar Alexander’s stance on coal. He sees coal power as causing acid rain that is hurting the Smokies. Streams up there are measurably acidified a bit, and he blames coal. Honestly, I don’t have the expertise to critique his thinking, but he and I have shared some emails over the years, and that is where his head is at. He, like me, loves that area, I think he has property in Townsend, and in his mind, he is protecting the Smokies from coal. Without strongly supporting clean nuclear energy (he has some good ideas but no juice behind them.) I appreciate how he has taken the time to email back and forth with me concerning that and a couple of other issues, and I appreciate him as a man. But he is not at his core a small government man, and it shows. I wish him a happy, long retirement.

Well, I don’t like burning coal either, but if you’re anti-coal you pretty much have to be either pro-nuclear or anti-power.