Palin tried to make a story, and will probably succeed, out of Obama dismissing her criticism of a nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia. Palin, in turn, mocked "all that vast nuclear expertise he acquired as a community organizer, a part-time senator, and a candidate for president." Notably, she attacked Obama for accomplishing "nothing to date with Iran or North Korea."
The original inspiration for the remark, the treaty with Russia? Not mentioned.
Palin spent a lot of time on energy, and the tone was fascinating. Details about the location of oil and natural gas reserves, which got a cooler response from the crowd, were quickly spiced up with jokes.
"The administration is locking up even more federal lands that are filled with this God-given, huge reserve," said Palin. The culprit: the "Economic Punishment Agency." Democrats, she said, were not willing to store nuclear waste or build solar panels in the desert. "God forbid, somebody might see it, or a gecko might bump into one."
Echoing a remark she has made on the stump, Palin joined the chorus of Republicans pledging that the party can "repeal and replace" the Affordable Care Act. "If you watch some of the news -- or maybe are on the White House's e-mail list -- some of this stuff might come as a surprise," she said.
Palin also echoed Liz Cheney's criticism of the Obama administration's handling of Afghanistan -- one more hit, and it's a trend. Unlike other parts of the speech, where Palin riffed a little bit, it jibed with Matthew Continetti's early excerpts of the speech. "This administration alienates our friends," she said. They treated Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai poorly and acted surprised when he reacted in kind."
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I watched the whole thing live on MSNBC, it was kind of incredible. She completely lives in some kind of fantasy world. I won't even go into my outrage over her statement that, "Jerusalem is not a settlement!" as a rebuttal to the Obama administration's unhappiness with Israel's settlement plans that pretty much killed any peace talks.
It implied some kind of creepy religious bent to her foreign policy that seems totally insane.
