Palin in a recent speech via Jon Chait:
"After inheriting a good pro-development GOP plan that opened up both coasts for drilling, the Obama administration halted development ... and now we're gonna study, more study of the South Atlantic and parts of the Gulf of Mexico ... my goodness, folks, these areas have been studied to death ... I have seen so many, many studies! I say, let's send the White House this message: that, you know, we can save taxpayer time, save money and announce: there is oil and gas down there, and we can produce it safely and responsibly! We don't need more studies, we need more action! Because energy produced in America is security for America, and it is jobs for American workers, jobs that can't be outsourced. Let's drill baby, drill, not stall, baby, stall!"
So three things here. First, her writing is like a really bad letter to the editor submission. Obviously. Second, notice how she wrote, "I have seen so many, many studies!" Not "read so many, many studies." She's just seen them. Probably in giant pile labeled Too Many, Many Words! Eeek! And finally, even if she was allowed to open up every square mile of the ocean to offshore rigs, the drilling wouldn't produce oil for another 10 years. And only then, the oil would last for just a few years. Then what?
To quote Keith Olbermann: "This woman is an idiot." And I've seen so many, many idiots.