Updated on May 24: Former Gov. Jennifer Granholm writes to explain that over a year ago, she did go public with her endorsement of gay marriage. Duly noted.

Jennifer Granholm has been long gone from Michigan but obviously she’s not forgotten nor forgiven, by some, for what she did as governor.

Jennifer Granholm critics are alive and well and now she has handed them another reason to blast away at her politics.

Another alleged flip-flop - or so her critics will argue.

The issue was the President's new stance on gay marriage. He’s fer it and turns out so is she, but that was not always thus.

The Detroit Free Press pointed this out the other day.

On her national cable TV show she asked everyone to “Remember this day” as she embraced Mr. Obama’s own reversal on the sticky issue. Ms. Granholm called it “equality and freedom wrapped up in red, white and blue.”

She lauded the president for stepping off the “squishy, wishy-washy middle ground that so many political figures have occupied” on gay nuptials.

Problem is, during her tenure she was one of those.

She never endorsed gay marriage when governor and opined that domestic partners was OK but “marriage is between a man and a woman.”

Anything else, she noted years ago, was against the law.

What the Freep folks missed is that her change of heart happened over a year ago but was never revealed and thus, never reported.

It's difficult to get into the head of any politician, but maybe she had a good reason for the reversal? She did not explain the change of heart which, of course, opens the door to any number of conspiracy theories: She wasn't telling the truth years ago; she got hit on the head; or make up your own far-fetched analysis.



To avoid all the far-right hand ringing over all this she simply should have anticipated the bashing and simply announced publicly, my attitude has changed.

Heck Mitt Romney has been doing that for years.

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