Palin Was Green Before She Went Rouge

A few weeks ago, Sarah Palin pandered to the neocon, teabagger groupies by having someone ghost write an editorial in the Washington Post* lambasting the summit in Copenhagen has being some sort of conspiracy.

It's funny how the love of money can make people turn on a dime.

Before she was a national buffoon, but merely a statewide buffoon in Alaska, she was talking a different way:

A few weeks before she mounted the national stage, in July of last year, then-Gov. Palin told her state:

"Alaska's climate is warming. While there have been warming and cooling trends before, climatologists tell us that the current rate of warming is unprecedented within the time of human civilization. Many experts predict that Alaska, along with our northern latitude neighbors, will warm at a faster pace than any other areas, and the warming will continue for decades."

The governor did what a forward-looking leader should do. She created a subcabinet group to look at "carbon-trading markets" and examine "the expanded use of alternative fuels, energy conservation, energy efficiency, renewable energy." She's now bashing scientists and telling Obama to stay away from Copenhagen.

I realize that this won't make her idolaters fall all over themselves any less, but it is good for the thinking class to know.

*There seems to be a growing trend of writing editorials in WaPo only to have it come around to show what a bloom hypocrite they really are.