Not sure if "drill baby drill" was ever her cry. Do you have a direct quote of her saying that, other than correcting Biden during the VP debates?
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It was what she hollered at the GOP Convention, and at a number of other venues. Google it and you will find it.
Or here it is:
Palin’s Policy: Drill, Baby, Drill
By Jeffrey Ball WSJ, Sept 8, 2008.
Among many applause lines from the speakers at the Republican convention last night, one stood out: Drill, baby, drill.
Michael Steele, the former lieutenant governor of Maryland, launched the line, prompting howls of approval from the crowd. Rudolph Guiliani, the former New York mayor, repeated it, if almost as an afterthought. And Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, echoed the sentiment, to even louder cheers of the crowd.
Gov. Palin’s position on energy is worth parsing, because it shows what a political minefield the subject is likely to become this election season.
On the one hand, the Alaska governor cited as one of her main political bona fides having stood up to oil interests who, she said, had been largely running her state when she assumed office. Her tough anti-Big-Oil talk is sure to appeal to Main Street at a time when gasoline is still selling in some parts of the country for near $4 a gallon.
On the other hand, Gov. Palin argued forcefully, as a product herself of the U.S. oil patch, that the country should let the drill bits fly. “We Americans need to produce more of our own oil and gas,” she said. “And take it from a gal who knows the North Slope of Alaska: we’ve got lots of both.
She continued: “Our opponents say, again and again, that drilling will not solve all of America’s energy problems — as if we all didn’t know that already. But the fact that drilling won’t solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.”
Looking on approvingly was Gov. Palin’s husband, Todd, himself an oil-industry employee.
Those two ideas needn’t be contradictory. Americans largely blame the oil industry for today’s high prices at the pump, and it stands to reason that one way to bring prices down is to increase the supply of domestic oil. The fact that most studies attribute today’s oil prices to broader market dynamics, and say increasing U.S. drilling won’t meaningfully affect pump prices for years, could prove just an asterisk in this political argument.
What may be more interesting to watch is how Big Oil fares this fall. Is it the evil force whose lobbyists need to be kept from squeezing the system? Or is it the band of honest American workers eager for the chance to help pull the country out of its energy crunch?
