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A Palin in the neck

Posted on September 04, 2008

By Joseph RommIf you google Palin 'energy expert,' you'll find more than 10,000 hits. It's no surprise that conservative shills like George Pataki and Haley Barbour use that label -- heck, a major conservative talking point is that she's a foreign-policy expert because Alaska is the closest part of our continent to Russia, as Cindy McCain put it. Conservatives are desperate to inflate the resume of this partially vetted semi-qualified VP choice. But it is outrageous for CNBC's Maria Bartiromo to say on Meet the Press, I think the biggest value she brings to the ticket is her expertis...

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