Says the smart Rick Esenberg apropos of Sarah Palin's red-state-meat speech:
One thing that Alaska helps her with is energy policy where she has some natural credibility and some real achievement. She ties that in with international energy markets in a first attempt to demonstrate foreign policy cred.
Observes the Washington Monthly's Steven Benen:
When Palin managed to finally get to substance, it was, oddly enough, the weakest part of her speech. Yglesias noted that Palin's "understanding of the geopolitics of energy is every bit as daft as that of much more seasoned conservative pseudoexperts." Kevin added:
On a substantive level, I'd say the most preposterous part of her speech was on precisely the one topic she's supposed to be already well versed on: energy. Nothing she said made any sense at all. The amount of new oil we can drill in the United States is tiny, not large. Nothing we do on that front will have the slightest impact on either foreign producers or the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Iran doesn't control a fifth of the world's energy supply. And clean coal doesn't exist. It was just a farrago of nonsense from beginning to end.
Illusory Tenant tries to save the professor from himself here.
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