Why Palin Endorsed Branstad

I pretty much agree with this guy's assessment:

There's a simple answer to the question, I think. He's going to be the next governor of Iowa, assuming that there are no stunning surprises next week and Chet Culver, the Democrat, doesn't mount a miraculous election year comeback.

Indeed, even as the last previous Republican gubernatorial nominee ahead of the Iowa caucuses, Branstad and his team would have quite a bit of influence over the field operation that a candidate Sarah Palin would need to recruit to win there

If you're thinking about running for president, and I think Palin really is thinking about running for president, you don't get on the wrong side of the guy who will probably be governor during the caucuses by endorsing his opponent, no matter how conservative and Tea Partyish Bob Vander Plaats seems to be. By the way: Vander Plaats's biggest proponent: Mike Huckabee, whose campaign he co-chaired in '08.

Vander Plaats supporters are dragging out polls that show him doing well against Culver. Well, that's fine, but you do know there's a primary first, right? Who cares about the general if you can't even win the primary?

As for the Iowa Presidential election, I don't honestly get what the big deal is. Huckabee won Iowa. He lost the election big time. For Palin it may be essential to make a statement or something, but I don't put all of my eggs in the Iowa basket.

We Con the World

ROTFL!!!

Is Palin a Flip-Flopper?

As near as I can figure, Chrissy is claiming that Palin is now saying that she never supported offshore drilling.

Let's look at what she actually wrote:
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This is a message to extreme “environmentalists” who hypocritically protest domestic energy production offshore and onshore. There is nothing “clean and green” about your efforts. Look, here’s the deal: when you lock up our land, you outsource jobs and opportunity away from America and into foreign countries that are making us beholden to them. Some of these countries don’t like America. Some of these countries don’t care for planet earth like we do – as evidenced by our stricter environmental standards.

With your nonsensical efforts to lock up safer drilling areas, all you’re doing is outsourcing energy development, which makes us more controlled by foreign countries, less safe, and less prosperous on a dirtier planet. Your hypocrisy is showing. You’re not preventing environmental hazards; you’re outsourcing them and making drilling more dangerous.

Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our country’s energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies about onshore and SHALLOW WATER DRILLING have locked up safer areas. It’s catching up with you. The tragic, unprecedented deep water Gulf oil spill proves it.

We need permission to drill in safer areas, including the uninhabited arctic land of ANWR. It takes just a tiny footprint – equivalent to the size of LA’s airport – to tap America’s rich and plentiful oil and gas up north. ANWR’s drilling footprint is like a postage stamp on a football field.

But it’s not just ANWR; it’s our Petroleum Reserve, too. As Governor Sean Parnell noted today in the Wall Street Journal:

“Federal agencies are also now blocking oil development in the National Petroleum Reserve—Alaska.

Although familiar with ANWR, most Americans are less likely to know about NPR-A and how vital it is to our energy security. Given recent developments, it’s time to elevate the position this area holds in our national discourse.

NPR-A, a 23 million acre stretch of Alaska’s North Slope, was set aside by President Warren Harding in 1923 for the specific purpose of supplying our country and military with oil and gas. Since 1976 it has been administered by the Department of the Interior, and since 1980 it has been theoretically open for development. The most recent estimates indicate that it holds 12 billion barrels of oil and 73 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

In addition to containing enormous hydrocarbons, NPR-A is very close to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, which means that there would be relatively little additional infrastructure needed to bring this new oil to our domestic market.

But even here, progress has been stalled.”

Radical environmentalists: you are damaging the planet with your efforts to lock up safer drilling areas. There’s nothing clean and green about your misguided, nonsensical radicalism, and Americans are on to you as we question your true motives.

- Sarah Palin
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Let me read that again.

Nope. I still see nothing about "We shouldn't drill offshore. I never said we should drill offshore. I've always been solely for onshore drilling."

On the contrary, she mentions that deep sea drilling is not preferred. It'd be better to drill IN SHALLOWER WATERS. Unfortunately, greenies think it spoils their view or something.

Let's not forget that this particular well was drilled in September of 2009. That would be under Obama's watch. The well drilled was over 5,000 feet deeper than design specifications for this oil rig.

Sean Parnell on Neil Cavuto

Alaska Governor Sean Parnell was on the Fox Business Network this afternoon to talk about the oil spill. He also gives his take on Palin's new neighbor:

Don't Forget to Watch TLC Tomorrow Night!

This week's episode of Mall Cops will feature Sarah Palin's book signing at the Mall of America: