There's a difference. I'm always willing to give someone the benefit of the doubt.

I saw some liberals praising Palin yesterday. ...and I'm NOT being sarcastic. They talked about how, as governor of Alaska, she closed a loophole or passed legislation that stopped oil companies from cheating the state out of some $12B in taxes. She did this well before she was tapped by the McCain camp for VP. She also cleaned up a lot of the corrupt GOP machine in Alaska, if what I'm hearing is true.

Where is THAT Sarah Palin? The Sarah Palin that held the oil companies feet to the fire would collide headlong with the current GOP aversion to even stopping oil subsidies in an era of trillion dollar deficits while they make record multibillion profits.

It's just like John McCain - where was the McCain I voted for in 2000? He certainly wasn't there in 2008. He was LONG gone by then.