Two GOP Presidential pretenders flip like pancakes on climate change

Notice that I didn't say "contenders".

Newt Gingrich abandons the plan I once admired him for, a GOP conservative proposing action on climate change.

Now: Gingrich said evidence for climate change is “not nearly complete” and that he viewed a cap-and-trade program as a “massively expensive” plan based on “a theory”:

“I think we honestly don’t know,” he said. “I think the evidence is not nearly as complete as the computerized models, and I think that the understanding of climatology is a lot more incomplete than the global warming advocates would have you believe.”

Then: He even joined fellow former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) — who he now views as “despicable,” “dishonest,” “vicious,” and “trivial” — in a commercial for former Vice President Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection to say “we do agree our country must take action to address climate change.”

Gingrich even supported a cap-and-trade plan!!!

Tim Pawlenty takes the politically expedient route, leaving friends in his wake

Then (2006): "The two began touring the state together, appearing at a forum in Duluth—where they discussed what global warming would mean for Lake Superior—and the Twin Cities. In interviews, Pawlenty referred to their alliance as the "odd couple," and compared his new partner to Paul Revere, for his role in sounding the alarm on the threat of climate change. He acknowledged that not everyone in his party was happy with his position, but that was the point: He and [polar explorer Will] Steger, he said, were going to "convince the skeptics."

Now: "... the former Minnesota governor and current GOP presidential contender abruptly reversed himself on the issue in 2008, just as his name was being floated as a possible presidential running mate for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). Steger and Pawlenty haven't spoken since. Today, the politician who once cut a radio ad with Janet Napolitano calling for a federal cap on greenhouse gas emissions calls his work on climate change "stupid" and says the science is uncertain at best."

I have one word for these twerps: HYPOCRITES. And that's being kindly mild.