A FIGHTING SARAH - AT 9:04 A.M. ET:  As readers know, I've been a bit skeptical about Sarah Palin.  Yes, she was treated unfairly during the campaign, but she didn't meet our expectations either.  Now, though, she seems to be coming into her own.  Her speeches have been sharp, her interviews delightful, and her appearance at the Gridiron dinner in Washington over the weekend was a home run.

What I especially like is that Sister Sarah is snapping back at her critics, and doing so in well-written essays at Facebook.  Okay, I can't guarantee that she's writing these herself, but virtually all political figures have writing staffs.  What she's saying makes sense, and makes it well.  From The Politico:

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin hit back at former Vice President Al Gore on Wednesday for calling her a global warming “denier.”

Speaking to MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Wednesday, Gore criticized an op-ed Palin wrote for the Washington Post calling on President Barack Obama to boycott the global climate change conference in Copenhagen.

“The deniers are persisting in an era of unreality. The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our eyes,” Gore said. “What do they think is happening?”

“It's a principle in physics,” Gore said of climate change. “It's like gravity, it exists.”

Palin took to her Facebook page late Wednesday to respond to Gore.

“Perhaps he’s right. Climate change is like gravity – a naturally occurring phenomenon that existed long before, and will exist long after, any governmental attempts to affect it,” Palin wrote. “However, he’s wrong in calling me a ‘denier.’ As I noted in my op-ed above and in my original Facebook post on Climategate, I have never denied the existence of climate change. I just don’t think we can primarily blame man’s activities for the earth’s cyclical weather changes.”

And then Sarah dealt with Climategate:

“Vice President Gore, the Climategate scandal exists,” she added. “You might even say that it’s sort of like gravity: you simply can’t deny it.”

COMMENT:  Good for Sarah.  Al Gore may soon be facing some inconvenient truths.

December 10, 2009