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Opinion: Palin to Biden: ‘Drill, baby, drill’ not that complicated

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(UPDATE: 1:28 p.m. An additional quote from the program and a link to the full transcript has been added below.) Rush Limbaugh has said of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin‘s new book, ‘Going Rogue,’ that it is ‘truly one of the most substantive policy books I’ve read.’

So the conservative icon was determined not to follow the media herd. In a half-hour interview with the Republican Party’s hottest commodity, Limbaugh did not ask Palin about her quarrels with John McCain‘s presidential campaign, her interview with CBS’ Katie Couric, her clothes, her husband or her ambitions.

Instead, he offered her a platform for policy, a chance to burnish her credentials, to add gravitas to the resume.

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On the green revolution: ‘A lot of snake-oil science. ... Somebody’s making an awful lot of money’ from the fear of global warming.

On healthcare: ‘There are lots of common-sense solutions before we get the federal government involved.’

And, finally, on the ‘drill, baby, drill’ chant that defined her appearance before the Republican National Convention last summer: ‘What is complicated about tapping into safe supplies’ of oil?

Responding to Vice President Biden‘s recent comment that addressing environmental issues is more complicated then just drilling, Palin said, ‘It’s not that complicated, it’s political.’

(UPDATE: The full Limbaugh-Palin transcript is now available here. He also asked Palin about the loss of her endorsed Conservative Party candidate, Doug Hoffman, in New York’s 23d District:

Well, I think what you saw there is -- and of course it’s not just the Republican machine, it’s the Democrat machine, too. You know, if you’re not the anointed one within the machine, sometimes you have a much tougher row to hoe and that’s what Hoffman faced. He was the underdog. I think great timing for him, though, to stand strong on his conservative credentials and essentially come out of nowhere and prove that an American without that resume, without that machine backing can truly make a difference in an election like this.RUSH: Well, now, you used the term, ‘If you’re not the anointed one by the party machine, you’re the underdog and you have a tough row to hoe.’ Based on things that I read, the Republican establishment would not anoint you to be a nominee of their party should you choose to go that way.

Palin, who upset the entrenched GOP establishment in Alaska to win the gubernatorial primary, chuckled.

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