I see Michelle Malkin has already commented on the apparent hypocrisy of Arianna Huffington's slam on Hillary Clinton in the LA Times yesterday for being "the quintessential political weather vane." I say "apparent hypocrisy" because despite Michelle pointing out the obvious fact that Arianna used to be considered "conservative," Huffington's column really doesn't represent much of a contradiction.

Arianna simply hates moderation. She's gone from one extreme to the other and, as strange and schizonphrenic as it might seem to most of us to have such a dramatic change in our world view, Arianna is now a fully reconstructed, fully committed "progressive" in the same way former leftist David Horowitz is now a fully committed right-wing flame thrower.

What makes Arianna different is the nagging sense that her politics has always been more about calculation than conviction. Remember, this is a woman Republican strategist Ed Rollins (who managed Michael Huffington's '94 campaign for California Senate) once called "a domineering Greek Rasputin" and said was "the most ruthless, unscrupulous, and ambitious person I'd met in thirty years in national politics."

And that was when she was a conservative, six or so years before she became a liberal, nine years before she made a vanity run for Governor of California, and ten years before she became the doyenne of a progressive political web site.