Flashback: When Asked If She Supported Capping Carbon, Palin Said, ‘I Do’
Flashback: When Asked If She Supported Capping Carbon, Palin Said, ‘I Do’
Today, soon-to-be former Alaska governor Sarah Palin (R) took to the op-ed pages of the Washington Post to attack the cap-and-trade measure currently before Congress. After taking a subtle dig at “the national media,” Palin called cap-and-trade “an enormous threat to our economy“:
Unfortunately, many in the national media would rather focus on the personality-driven political gossip of the day than on the gravity of these challenges. So, at risk of disappointing the chattering class, let me make clear what is foremost on my mind and where my focus will be:
I am deeply concerned about President Obama’s cap-and-trade energy plan, and I believe it is an enormous threat to our economy. It would undermine our recovery over the short term and would inflict permanent damage.
Palin then went through the litany of typical right-wing talking points on cap-and-trade, calling it “cap-and-tax” four times, and saying it would eliminate jobs, “kill responsible domestic energy production or clobber every American consumer with higher prices.” (It’s not and it won’t.) However, Palin didn’t offer any solutions to addressing climate change — perhaps because as Steve Benen pointed out, Palin never mentioned the words “global warming,” “climate change,” “carbon,” or “emissions” in her article.
But one other point Palin omitted was that she once supported cap-and-trade not more than a year ago. During the Vice Presidential candidates debate with then-Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE), Palin was asked if she supported capping emissions:
QWEN IFILL: But I just wanted to ask you, do you support capping carbon emissions?
PALIN: I do. I do.
Watch it:
Palin isn’t the only one on the 2008 Republican presidential ticket to be hit with amnesia on cap-and-trade. After campaigning for climate change legislation, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) recently derided the current measure before Congress as a “cap-and-tax” bill, calling it the “wrong path.”
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Just like the bridge to nowhere. She supported it until it became politically expedient to oppose it.
How could you not want this quitting flip-flopper one feeble 72 year old heartbeat away from the Presidency?
Sheesh.
July 14th, 2009 at 3:12 pmSarah Palin just channels nonsense and drivel. She has a worse command of the English language than Chimpy at his prime. She is so woefully undereducated.
It’s quite sad to see someone make such a fool of herself internationally.
Her moronic hordes of admirers see her stupidity as a virtue.
July 14th, 2009 at 3:12 pmevangenital says:
Sarah Palin just channels nonsense and drivel. She has a worse command of the English language than Chimpy at his prime. She is so woefully undereducated.
July 14th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
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In other words, the perfect conservative.
July 14th, 2009 at 3:14 pmWell, she is a maverick – you know.
Do you expect coherrence from her ?
July 14th, 2009 at 3:14 pmI suggest “capping” Bible Spice Palin’s stupid mouth off with a muzzle………
July 14th, 2009 at 3:15 pmHer friends and family should really advise to to keep her mouth shut. She keeps getting both feet stuck in it.
Wow, just wow.
July 14th, 2009 at 3:18 pmThese people don’t attempt to remember anything. Consistency on issues is not important to them. They know their base can’t remember anything past yesterday and they don’t care about anyone else.
Whatever it takes to get elected or make a buck.
July 14th, 2009 at 3:18 pmQWEN IFILL: But I just wanted to ask you, do you support capping carbon emissions?
PALIN: I do. I do.
Seriously, look at her face when she answers Ms Ifill. Palin didn’t even know what “capping carbon emissions” meant.
Still doesn’t.
July 14th, 2009 at 3:18 pmSarah Palin is an enormous threat to thought everywhere.
July 14th, 2009 at 3:18 pmShe was recently bemoaning the fact that her oldest son Track (Trick? Truck? Trek?) is not a registered repiggie.
July 14th, 2009 at 3:20 pmFace it, she didn’t understand what it was when she “supported” it, and still doesn’t understand anything about cap and trade. Probably thought it was a cool Alaskan used hat shop that she never shopped in, too, also.
Palin’s being told what to say by her national handlers. There isn’t an original thought in that pretty little pinhead…youbetcha!
PEACE
July 14th, 2009 at 3:20 pmThank goodness this flip flopper isn’t one heartbeat away from the Presidency.
July 14th, 2009 at 3:20 pmShe obviously misunderstood Gwen’s question. She thought she was asked if she would cap Todd’s emissions.
July 14th, 2009 at 3:20 pmFlashback: When Asked If She Supported Capping Carbon, Palin Said, ‘I Do’
– -Palin’s piece does not contain the words pollution, emissions, carbon, or global warming. As Derek says, this is a bit like an op-ed on health care that doesn’t contain the words spending, costs, coverage, or medicine.
The celebreality is an idiot.
July 14th, 2009 at 3:22 pmShe didn’t write this article. She quit so they could use her to attack Obama, much like she did during the campaign. Does she even know what cap and trade really is.
Someone should sit her down and ask her about each of the paragraphs in her Op-ed and she what she comes up.
July 14th, 2009 at 3:22 pmSarah Palin puts the “ick” in “maverick.”
July 14th, 2009 at 3:22 pmRush forwarded the memo about what to think, so she’s got her ReichWing talking points straight now.
July 14th, 2009 at 3:23 pmIt is clear Sarah thought capping carbon emissions meant not letting Todd have the refried beans.
July 14th, 2009 at 3:25 pmThat’s not fair. Sarah thought she was talking about going out shopping for a black hat.
July 14th, 2009 at 3:26 pmHooda, that or condoms. She doesn’t believe in condoms either.
PEACE
July 14th, 2009 at 3:27 pmyea for sarah!! now she can be a real life sockpuppet, just like she always hoped and prayed she’d be!!!!
July 14th, 2009 at 3:28 pmshoeless says:
That’s not fair. Sarah thought she was talking about going out shopping for a black hat.
– - “capping carbon emissions?” Palin probably thought it was about butt plugs.
July 14th, 2009 at 3:29 pmSarah is the poster child of the Republicans. Semi-literate, easily led and/or deluded and willing to do anything to make a buck. She is reasonably attractive, capable of the occasional coherence and has no more heart than a chunk of granite
Sarah has the depth of cow pee on a flat rock. And, for any thinking individual, the same appeal.
July 14th, 2009 at 3:29 pmAlso, she doesn’t believe in dinosaurs, but she does believe in talking bushes.
July 14th, 2009 at 3:30 pmevangenital says:
Sarah Palin puts it “ick” in “maverick.”
LMFAO…that’s the funniest thing I’ve read today…Thanks :)
July 14th, 2009 at 3:33 pmEvery time I see a headline with Sarah Palin’s name, I start to chuckle a bit, knowing that the story will probably be jaw-droppingly crazy.
I am rarely disappointed.
Thank you, Sarah Palin, for making me laugh so much.
July 14th, 2009 at 3:36 pmshoeless, do we really want to go to the talking bushes bit? The woman has trouble walking.
July 14th, 2009 at 3:36 pmTake your racist plagiarism somewhere else, Stomp Out Liberalism. ’cause if you were looking for sympathy or converts here you are really S.O.L.
July 14th, 2009 at 3:46 pmStomp Out Liberalism says @ 29 says:
Go start your own blog. Of course, everyone here knows you didn’t bother to write that, nor did you give attribution.
I didn’t bother to read it, either.
PEACE
July 14th, 2009 at 3:47 pmI suggest a moratorium on Palin stories unless one of the following criteria is met:
- she dies
July 14th, 2009 at 3:48 pm- she announces that she is running for another office
- she is indicted
- she is committed to a mental institution
- she announces that she and Todd are divorcing and she is marrying Ann Coulter
Why are bigots always so long winded?
July 14th, 2009 at 3:51 pmHi, I guess that I get to comment after scrolling through yards and yards of #29 above… Isn’t there a one-thousand word limit on posts here at TP?
You are hereby Carbon Cap and Wife.
O/T: to Dept. of Justice:
July 14th, 2009 at 3:52 pmInvestigate Cheney,
Indict Cheney,
Try Cheney,
Convict Cheney,
Imprison Cheney.
Now really, was that so difficult?
Alaska has just announced a new annual race named after Bible Spice Palin :
The Iquitarod………..
July 14th, 2009 at 3:52 pmSarah and Ann? How about a menage e trois with Michelle?
A quartet with both of them.
July 14th, 2009 at 3:52 pmPalin the energy wizard lecturing Obama, what a joke. There is an interesting related post at http://iamsoannoyed.com/?page_id=588
July 14th, 2009 at 3:55 pmSo now we see the new ‘improved’ Sarah Palin. The new ‘voice’ of the Publican reichwing.
July 14th, 2009 at 4:00 pmStill all mouth and very little synaptic action.
Shorter S.O.L.:
July 14th, 2009 at 4:00 pmWhere’s my iced tead, M-F’er!!?
That’s it in a nutshell.
It’s not really hypocrisy if she had no idea what she was talking about in the first place
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the great GOPsby says:
people should not be forced to walk 50 miles to and from work.
Gibberish? “Babble babble babble” . . .
July 14th, 2009 at 4:15 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Gobospit, are you just a right wing talking point generator?
July 14th, 2009 at 4:15 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Gumble, my apologies, I accidentally hit a down on your comment.
July 14th, 2009 at 4:18 pmthe great GOPsby says:
Gibberish? “Babble babble babble” . . .
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your first language, gum?
Unlike yourself, I started making sense before I was two. Do you think you could manage to string an entire paragraph together in your own words? Maybe you could explain the context of these random babblings and maybe even provide some evidence to support them?
I know, I know. It’s asking a lot of you.
July 14th, 2009 at 4:21 pmIt’s impossible to fit that much hate on a bumpersticker.
July 14th, 2009 at 4:21 pmSarah Palin feigning concern about cap-and-trade? Oh how rich. She didn’t know what the Bush Doctrine was (although, with as many times as Bush sang a different song, that could be excusable), but couldn’t name a single news paper or news magazine that she read, is an expert in cap-and-trade. Too funny.
July 14th, 2009 at 4:22 pmThere is the old joke about what is the last thing to go through a june bugs mind before it hits the windshield.
Can’t help but wonder what a spit troll thinks about as its approval numbers rapidly head towards -10.
July 14th, 2009 at 4:27 pm…when asked if she knew what carbon was, Palin said “I don’t”
July 14th, 2009 at 4:28 pmWas it just yesterday that Sarah Palin decried the “partisanship” in our Country and vowed to do something about it?
Then today she writes an op-ed that by any standard is considered “partisan?”
Is this Sarah Palin or Sybil Palin? Evidently more than one person is sharing the inside of that head.
I hope she starts “winking” on a regular basis, also, too!
July 14th, 2009 at 4:34 pmPalin does what every other politician does; she will say anything that is politically expedient and what her audience wants to hear rather than what they need to hear.
July 14th, 2009 at 4:35 pmHoodathunktick says:
Gumble, my apologies, I accidentally hit a down on your comment.
Hey, no worries.
July 14th, 2009 at 4:39 pm“In what respect, Charlie?”
July 14th, 2009 at 4:44 pmI’ve done that a couple times already. In fact, I may have done it to one of your comments, Hooda. Sorry.
We’ve still gotta get used to this new system.
July 14th, 2009 at 4:45 pmUnlike yourself, I started making sense before I was two. Do you think you could manage to string an entire paragraph together in your own words? Maybe you could explain the context of these random babblings and maybe even provide some evidence to support them?
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they were questions of your true intentions and you failed the test. the liberal agenda in plain view for all to see.
July 14th, 2009 at 4:49 pmWhy do we pay so much attention to Sarah Palin? I’m guessing it’s the same reason Florence Foster Jenkins was so popular in her time.
For those of you unfamiliar with FFJ (and I only know of her historically, since she died before I was born), she was a woman who had always wanted to sing, and once she had inherited a sum of money that allowed her to pursue her dream, she went for it. God love her, she was so talentless that listening to cats fighting in an alley was probably a better musical experience than listening to her. But she never allowed anything to discourage her, and categorized herself with the other (genuine) great sopranos of her day.
Her popularity was due to people finding the way Mrs. Jenkins murdered the classics to be highly entertaining. Tickets to her recitals were highly sought after, and her single Carnegie Hall performance in 1944 was sold out weeks in advance. Her performances were delivered in serious earnest, and she seemed quite oblivious to the fact that she provided her audience with comic instead of musical entertainment.
And here we have Sarah Palin. A woman so completely unfit for national office that it’s laughable. This laughter keeps her in the public eye, of course, but her popularity appears to have given her the idea that she’s statesmanlike, politically intelligent, and a leader of her party.
She really doesn’t have a clue that her party regards her only as a token woman when they needed one, an attention-getter who could draw a crowd, someone who looks good on the teevee, and a sock puppet for the PNAC and other party power.
And the rest of us regard her as an endless source of entertainment — a guilty pleasure. Because a Sarah Palin interview (or speech, or column) makes as many people laugh today as an aria sung by Florence Foster Jenkins did over 65 years ago.
July 14th, 2009 at 4:50 pmGreat analogy misscoleopteramolly. Can I put that up as a guest post at TheZoo?
July 14th, 2009 at 4:58 pmthe great GOPsby says:
they were questions of your true intentions and you failed the test. the liberal agenda in plain view for all to see.
I’m pretty sure the “liberal agenda” doesn’t involve rendering sense from nonsense. It does, however, involve explaining opinions and ideas in a coherent manner supported by facts, data and evidence — a test you have failed repeatedly, even when given an open invitation.
And “questions” have a particular structure in the English language, a structure that appears to baffle you entirely.
July 14th, 2009 at 5:03 pmDoodlebug Shayne says
July 14th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Great analogy misscoleopteramolly. Can I put that up as a guest post at TheZoo?
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Oh, absolutely — go for it! I also found a link to some articles written about her:
http://www.maxbass.com/Florence-Foster-Jenkins.htm
Plus, she has a Wikipedia entry.
July 14th, 2009 at 5:08 pmI put it up misscoleopteramolly. You should be on television pointing this out to the country.
July 14th, 2009 at 5:33 pm“Palin isn’t the only one on the 2008 Republican presidential ticket to be hit with amnesia on cap-and-trade. After campaigning for climate change legislation, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) recently derided the current measure before Congress as a “cap-and-tax” bill, calling it the “wrong path.”
Is McCain now opposing “climate change legislation” or just the way it is addressed in the current measure being considered? TP quoted him on 6/29 as saying, “In its present form, which is cap-and-tax. … It’s really terrible, because I believe that climate change is real, I believe it is something that we need to address, and I’m sure that a lot of Americans do, but to do so with a bill like this?”
TP, you’re doing the same thing in this post that you criticized others for doing:
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/26/dccc-ads-war-funding/
July 14th, 2009 at 5:43 pmStomp Out Liberalism @ 29
I couldn’t read it all. I just skimmed it.
But you’re a teacher, right? Or used to be? Did you know that people’s taxes go to pay your salary? And that public education is a “government service?”
BTW. Thanks for teaching. My mom was a career school teacher.
July 14th, 2009 at 6:13 pmIt’s not amnesia. It’s lying.
July 14th, 2009 at 6:31 pmOh, but Sarah tells whoppers all the time! That’s her MO.
Unfortunately, the MSM only gives her extreme softball interviews, and never gets to ask her about the uncomfortable truths. She is PATHOLOGICAL.
Here’s a link to Andrew Sullivan’s compilation of “The Odd Lies of Sarah Palin.”
Read it and weep.
July 14th, 2009 at 6:38 pm#22
No, I think when she heard the words: “capping carbon emissions’ she thought it meant to breaking air or fart, and she instinctively reply: “I didn’t do it!”
To borrow some Winston Churchill words: Never in the history of menkind has so much bullshit been spread around by so few.
Republicanism have become a joke in America.
July 14th, 2009 at 7:27 pm.
It’s Sarah Palin…
… What do you expect?
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July 15th, 2009 at 1:18 amGive her a break people.
She thought they were talking about putting the cap back on toothpaste.
July 15th, 2009 at 7:11 amI saw a woman yesterday in a grocery store parking lot, who had a McCain/Palin sticker on the rear window. The notable part is, she had cut out the McCain portion. May I add that I noticed also an anti gay marriage bumper stick as well.
July 15th, 2009 at 9:02 am