re: #42 Winny Spencer

I just think it illustrates an important point about Mittens. He’s not the habitual flip-flopper devoid of any convictions apart from his own political aggrandizement that he is often caricatured as. That was a brave statement to make and I certainly applaud him for making it.

I don’t think it was really brave — he’s been on record for a long time as accepting the science of climate change. His only choices were to “apologize” for it (as Tim Pawlenty did) or repeat his previous statements.

I predict he’s soon going to either walk it back entirely and apologize like Pawlenty, or he’ll try to split the difference and say climate change is real, but there’s no need to do anything about it immediately.

On some right wing blogs, they’re already trying to do this kind of clumsy triangulation.