While I don't want to get too far off topic, but since the topic is Lieberman, I can't resist reminding my fellow left leaning readers that Lieberman's rise to prominence came upon his being recongnized by Al Gore who seeing the superficialities and affinities of oh so decent Lieberman thought he'd make a dandy president should he himself suffer the unthinkable. Of course we know Gore was wrong. He's been right on numerous occasion and I'm pleased to give him praise for some things, but we see again the superficial appearances becoming an urgent if poorly vetted reality with his taking to his own the cause of global warming and his belief in a complex over-wrought system of gobbledy gook designed to make the moral choice one that is shoved down our throats.

The tide is turning, the pendulum swings both ways and the reality of global warming is becoming one that finds human generated CO2 less of an impact that feared (and I stress the word "feared")...latest report from the most seculara and progressive nation of Norway, upon studying the ancient shorelines of Greenland, reveal that the warming of the Arctic is not something unique to our time. I regret mostly that the real human impacts of overpopulation, habitat loss due on land in the oceasn to developement and out and out toxic industrial pollution have had to take a back seat to the alarmist rhetoric from those whose concept of greenhouse warming goes back to a weekly reader article they read when they were still in grade school...and can't do the kind of mental adjustment to recognize that analogy is not science and that the atmoshpere is not made of glass and can't seem to tell the difference between miles thick polar ice caps and meter thick sea ice. Cheers.

Remember that political cartoon from 1995 when it showed Newt as a big headed baby in a diaper throwing a teary tantrum? I think he's still mad at that, plus he still doesn't have a clue as to what all the knowledge in his head actually means. He is not un-educated but persists in interpreting his field of history in a most perverse way so that the narrow philosophy of the dark ages is illuminated like a piece of cheap brass. I guess that's why I always appreciate watching, reading and hearing him. No matter what it is, you can be sure it's both totally accurate and completely misinterpreted.

...those two giant egos on stage together, stumbling over each other while conducting a two person circle jerk. Y'almost wish we could visit the parallel universe in which that happens just for laughs...it's probably right next door to the universe where Romney's statements are actually true and where Kennedy is spinning in his grave by having Romney interpret JFK's position on religious faith in politics.

D'oh! I'd go easy on all the crocodile tears and gloating over the prospect of all those GOP congress critters loosing their seats. They'll be leaving via a gem-encrusted platinum revolving door right into very lucrative positions as the ultimate insiders, loaded with connections, and collectinig on past favors. One has to suspect it's why they preach small government but are practicing the art of soaking the taxpayer while creating an overflowing trough of public money. I wish that I could be certain that this was strictly the domain of the GOP but the hog they're sucklin' at has had multiple inseminations from either side of the sty, and has an ever expanding set of teats and I don't know anyone in either party who's proposing genuinely smaller budgets and as long as the 16th amendment stands there's no reason for anyone in congress to seriously propose otherwise. Uh oh...the sow is sprouting a new set of teats right now and they seem to be labelled "stop global warming no matter what".

Really revealing as to just where her perspectives are, as if we needed another example.

I know it's really popular to label anyone who doesn't buy into the current consensus on the causes of climate change as a "denier" and "anti-science" but as someone who most definitely believes in the processes and uses of science and technology, both pure and applied research, I prefer the word "heretic", since my problem has to do with othodoxy of interpretation and application of the data, not the process of creating objective knowledge and understanding of our world.

But Palin fully deserves the labels and wear's them as proudly as she wraps herself in misguided patriotism and unthinking superstitions.

This kind of willful ignorance is quite possibly, I think, the most threatening phenomenon the human race faces over the next few generations and rises head and shoulders above any threat from rising coastal sealevels.

When the article states that Palin is loved by the base, it should be kept in mind that the "base" is actually not so much a base as one of the feet, and it's one on some fairly trecherous foundation, based as it is on ignorance. There are conservative Republicans,many of whom I respect, as we see more and more, that are thoroughly dissatisfied with Palin.

Yes, I think that now, since she's been given the spotlight treatment, she will become a fixture in the political landscape, but it will be sorta like the terrible painting purchased while not thinking or bequethed by a family member; pointed to, criticized and used as an example and a warning.

If she runs again, barring some cataclysmic catastrophe sending the world back into the dark ages, she will probably do so as a crusader of a christian-fundamentalis, quasi-libertarian, anti-intellectualism a la' Savanarola while brandishing a firey sword of questionable integrity which will make Pat Buchanan look like a petualant little girl.

The best way to get rid of a wart like that is to freeze it off...and seeing her inate resistance to freezing, we may just have to say "see, it gives us character".