From The Asia Times
By Pepe Escobar

An energy explosion – literally.

“Starting in January, in a John McCain-Sarah Palin administration, we’re going to lay more pipelines … build more nuclear plants … create jobs with clean coal … and move forward on solar, wind, geothermal and other alternative sources.”

This is how a 44-year-old woman, mother of five, governor of Alaska for only two years, pro-life, pro-gun, pro-oil, a mooseburger-eating huntress at war with polar bears who hasn’t traveled outside of the US until last year, introduced herself to America and the world. Meet Sarah Palin, the lipstick pitbull.

She didn’t stroll into the tacky stage at the Republican Convention more an insurance salesman’s love fest than a plutocrat-cum-rural aristocracy special – clutching a puck, dragging a caribou carcass, or even a baby for that matter. But she positively beamed when she saw the highly choreographed “Hockey Mom” signs sprinkled around the Xcel Center in St Paul. “I love those hockey moms … You know they say what’s the difference between a hockey mom and a pitbull? Liptstick.”

The first third of her speech was a cross between Opportunity Knocks and A Simple Life – rural, frontier, idyllic life; but then the pitbull bared her teeth and dilacerated everything in sight, from the Barack Obama-Joe Biden ticket to the “elitist” mainstream media (booed in unison by the audience).

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