AlterNet: Anyone Care What Sarah Palin Thinks About Cap-and-Trade?

[marmar]

Anyone Care What Sarah Palin Thinks About Cap-and-Trade?

Posted by Joshua Holland at 2:49 PM on July 14, 2009.

I don't.




I guess I could comment on the thoroughly corrupted Washington Post giving Sarah Palin some prime real estate with which she can play policy wonk. Or I could note how ridiculous it is for someone who failed to serve a full term as governor of a state that in large part lives on the tax-payers' dime and revenues from Big Oil writing about the economic harms of cap-and-trade, or the creeping socialism it represents.

But I don't really give a damn what Palin has to say at this point and, more importantly, I fail to see the point.

Those who are dense enough to believe that the Alaska Quitbull is anything more than a right-wing blowhard who got in way over her head on the national stage is also dumb enough to believe that man-made climate change is a liberal hoax perpetrated for no reason but to bring our heroic capitalists to their knees and drive up gas prices for Joe the Plumber.

This is our segregated discourse at work -- if you're a hardline conservative, your whole worldview is like a parallel universe. For the rest of us ... well, the column is predictable to the point of tediousness.


http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/141318/anyone_care_what_sarah_palin_thinks_about_cap-and-trade/

[BlooInBloo]

1. Fire Froomkin, give space to Palin. Genius.

[Motown_Johnny]

2. Ghost written OP-EDs seem to be the method someone dreamed up for her to sound credible

I not only don't care what she thinks, but I don't believe for one minute that she is the one who wrote that. I am not even sure that she read it. I hope some liberal media type asks her about something in it and she responds with "in what respect?".

[tularetom]

3. You are right on target

There is no way in hell she wrote that piece. She can barely carry any coherent thought in a 5 minute resignation speech.

Some oil industry hired gun wrote that thing.

But I think you are engaging in wishful thinking if you believe any member of the liberal media is gonna question her on any aspect of it.