That’s Not Vetting We Can Believe In

Gov. Palin on the Iraq War (just out from Philip Gourevitch The New Yorker)

“I’m a mom, and my son is going to get deployed in September, and we better have a real clear plan for this war. And it better not have to do with oil and dependence on foreign energy.”

On Obama’s strength in Alaska …

“Something’s kind of changing here in Alaska, too, for being such a red state on the Presidential level. Obama’s doing just fine in polls up here, which is kind of wigging people out, because they’re saying, ‘This hasn’t happened for decades that in polls the D’ “–the Democratic candidate–” ‘is doing just fine.’ To me, that’s indicative, too. It’s the no-more-status-quo, it’s change.”